To be surprised my dd is still affected by this

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She took a very small amount of tablets back in 2014. She confessed to me today she still wonders why she wasn’t admitted to a CAMHS unit. Was this a common thing to happen six years ago?

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I would advise to focus less on her malingering

If you used that language towards any of the young people admitted to our MH unit you would be in all sorts of bother.

If someone took a small amount of tablets which was not an “overdose” (ie not a medical emergency) and later on was insisting they should have been sectioned into a mental health facility that indicates a possible bordenine personality disordered way of thinking

NICE define an overdose as "the use of a quantity of drug in excess of its intended or prescribed dose". Quite clearly, such an action does not need to constitute a medical emergency to fit the definition.

If you are a mh professional who can actually diagnose people, you know better than to attempt to do it over the internet based on a post about someone else; if you are not qualified to diagnose then don't do it. Imagine someone noting that you had misrepresented the content of op's posts (pretending that she has said that her daughter is "was insisting they should have been sectioned into a mental health facility", come on!) and started wondering what MH disorder that was indicative of.

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It sounds as though she feels her distress wasn't taken as seriously as it should have been