Welcome Molly of course you can join. Hope you got to sleep by now.
Thanks everyone so much for the thoughts and prayers for DS. The hospital he is now in are trying hard and are nice but are having no success at all and its been 2 months. I want him home but he is in a scarily bad state still from police handcuffing him and security guards holding him down then being force sedated and the trouble is if we go home we would also be back under that cahms team who thought that was a good way to act to a mute scare child, he has been in catatonia ever since. He did come out for a week and we thought he might be improving but he regressed a lot since. I think it might be as they put him back in the school top he was handcuffed etc in so asked them to change it and bin his top.
There does not seem to be a clear plan at the moment. We applied again to have him released from section but psychiatrist barred it, it now goes to Tribunal on 9 Dec. There was also a plan to leave him in hospital for months whilst they find an ASD home or similar and then move him to that saying they need a really long time for assessment. I have objected strongly to that as that plan makes zero sense, an ASD home takes the medical side away and he won't know anyone and hates transition, better to return him home. They are very funny about us using private people rather than state ones and I also phoned and its long waiting lists for the private as well and about £250 an hour. At least in hospital he is getting lots of therapies though none of them have any effect and he puts his care plan down the toilet. He gets irritated if you use the phrase better and clearly considers nothing wrong with him. But its hard to know if there is nothing wrong with him other than bad treatment from school, police, matcho man cahms service and so a return to home, a better school and a kinder cahms approach could work or one physiatrist was questioning if its more like an illness where he is hearing voices etc but none of them know, one thinks yes who is not with him, one thinks no who is with him. He avoids all eye contact and all contact with any humans including his sister and other children. But Feb and Easter trips we took him away and pretty normal though obviously he was mainly mute but running round Edinburgh Zoo with us, on boat trip, beach, eating big meals, went back did 8 GCSE mocks and passed 7. And its only when school started calling police on him for hiding and school banned him from going to school we saw a very rapid deterioration.
Useless school thankfully have finally been taken off everything and are not allowed in any meetings now. And awful person at LA appears to have been sacked or at least is no longer employed by then after a long disappearance after my complaint. But there's still quite a few problems with the team and plan and I don't believe the dodgy person acted alone. Well I know she didn't from e-mails I have been sent by solicitor, she was working with school. I have a discrimination case against them but am doing it myself and they have an expensive barrister, shame they did not spend that money on DS.