idiot woman!!!!!!!

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This morning dd saw the nurse for the first time, a scheduled appt as we have been really worried about her state of mind after all the deaths she's had to cope with.

The woman rings me just after 3pm (just trying to leave the house to pick up dd) and, OK the news isn't good, but that isn't what drove me demented about her.

She can't actually say anything, I mean just say it. She ums, and ers, and PAUSES for ages, and then ums again, until I want to shout "just TELL me you silly woman".

And she then rang again about 40mins later to tell me something dd had said to her this morning, but spent more time telling me about how worried she was about breaking her confidence so that I felt I should have been reassuring her, when I just wanted her to bloody well spit it out.

Then she babbled on about not working so many days over Xmas because it's, er, Xmas. And took almost a full minute to tell me which days she actually was working. And then said she was waiting for CAMHS to ring her back for dd's referral, but she didn't think they would now. Well, you silly bint, you've just spent over a quarter of an hour on the phone, so they couldn't get through even if they tried. You probably haven't left yourself enough time to phone them either, have you?

I don't want to talk to her again, and we had such high hopes.

Poor you. I hope you have better luck with CAMHS. You could try to phone them yourself (if this woman will give you the number) to hurry along an appointment. I did that for a student of mine and I think it helped hurry them up.

Thank you caen.

I know I was really having a rant, but this has been going on the whole of this term and I have been getting more and more worried. DD has been off more than she has been on, and has told me a few times she'd like to kill herself. Apparently this is what she confided to this woman, who then wasn't interested in talking to me about it, other than to say that she was the only one dd had told and that she was worried about breaking the confidence, with lots of ums, ers and pregnant pauses along the way.

I can probably get the CAMHS number from my GP, and as I have to go in tomorrow, I will ask then.