Stop Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services Denying Support For Autistic Kids

CAMHS misdiagnosed my Autistic burnout and it endangered my safety

For anyone who has been following my writing recently, you will be aware that there is an ongoing campaign regarding the failings of Child and Adolescent Mental health Services (CAMHS).

https://click.e.change.org/f/a/kbd-_rEe6Avzohk3sEF9sg~~/AANj1QA~/RgRmsN4iP0RtaHR0cHM6Ly9lbWVyZ2VudGRpdmVyZ2VuY2UuY29tLzIwMjMvMDgvMDUvY2FtaHMtbWlzZGlhZ25vc2VkLW15LWF1dGlzdGljLWJ1cm5vdXQtYW5kLWl0LWVuZGFuZ2VyZWQtbXktc2FmZXR5L1cDc3BjQgpkySdZzmQNsCjyUhdib2IuamFtaWVzb243QGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAg~~

Petition:

https://chng.it/JsYk7VXbB8

#autism #CAMHS #AutisticBurnout

Interested in child and adolescent mental health, and the transition to adulthood (and adult services)?

Come to a free, immersive performance of Hidden, produced by the amazing Made by Mortals.

Happening on Friday the 7th of July in Manchester, 1.30-3pm.

#MentalHealth
#CAMHS
#theatre
#Manchester
#FamilyTherapy

Important article from @rtenews: Parents' perspectives on seeking help for their young person in Ireland, including the work of the wonderful Dr Daráine Murphy, who I've had the privilege of working with in UCD. With so much discussion of #CAMHS in the news at the moment, this is a must read. Parents and young people need more support!
#YouthMentalHealth #MentalHealth
https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0126/1351873-youth-mental-health/

RT AsIAm Ireland (asiamireland@twitter.com)
AsIAm notes deep concern over the Report from the Independent Review of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). Read our full review at https://asiam.ie/camhs-report-must-address-structural-discrimination-experienced-by-autistic-children-and-young-people/
#CAMHS

'I lost out on a good eight years of my life'
"Ricky*, who is 20, was under the care of N Kerry #CAMHS for around 8 years.
Ricky is #autistic and, when he was still in primary school, he began to suffer with severe anxiety.
Ricky's care also involved treatment with a variety of psychotropic medications. These are drugs that alter mood, emotions and behaviour".

https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/0123/1350240-ricky-story-camhs/

RT @EdinUniCAPsych@twitter.com

Please welcome our new Clinical Senior Lecturer in Child & Adolesc Psychiatry, Dr @LianaRomaniuk@twitter.com

Dr Romaniuk will be working across @EdinburghUni@twitter.com & @NHS_Lothian@twitter.com #CAMHS leading important new research on young people’s mental health.

Check out her research https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PGxZSugAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

RT @CommonSenseSLT@twitter.com

For Advent I'm sending a visual/link/resource each day on MST to my #CAMHS team (BeeU) @mpftnhs@twitter.com on #Neurodiversity #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #MentalHealthAwareness #SLCN. Today's visual ❤️@scrappapertiger@twitter.com @CyberGoGiver@twitter.com 👉@RCSLTLearn@twitter.com @CPD_RCOT@twitter.com @MrTs_NQTs@twitter.com @ReachoutASC@twitter.com @neuroteachers@twitter.com

Weekends in the office #mentalhealth #coffee #tunes #camhs

@Mirmulcahy Found you via the #Camhs tag and just wanted to say hi as a parent who went through those challenges with a daughter (now diagnosed ADHD & ASD). We were lucky she had a brilliant teacher at the point her struggles were most evident and she got support early in life. 6 years later there is plenty that is challenging (expectations of levels of independence for post-16 education for one). Happy to connect and chat if it helps

So first post on a micro blogging site as I'm never sure I have much to say of interest to others. What I probably need to talk about for my interests are #TTRPGs; parenting neurodiverse children #CAMHS and the inter-relationship between the two 😊. #introduction

So first post on a micro blogging site as I'm never sure I have much to say of interest to others. What I probably need to talk about for my interests are #TTRPGs; parenting neurodiverse children #CAMHS and the inter-relationship between the two 😊. #introduction

@rdiscombobulate to clarify, we got the ASD diagnosis privately last summer (a loan from family) and the ADHD diagnosis with #camhs in March but all CAMHS offer is meds. nothing else. So we need CDNT

One thing I’m really going to miss from the other place were all the parents I found like me, going through the maze of #CAMHS (ok the nightmare) waiting for a diagnosis for their possibly #autistic #neurodiverse kid / mine’s a girl /so anyone out there in the same nightmare situation / v close to complete school refusal / I’m here for the chats. Or the comments. Or the coping ideas. Or even the coffees to compare notes! Oh yeah and same applies to #singleparents yes we do everything and we rock

Must do my #DBT homework tomorrow, even if I'm not up at #CAMHS with the eldest this week.

And I need to have a gander at this #Mindfulness journal, too.

And clean the house. Always cleaning the house.

Went to CAMHS with the eldest. It's the part of their #DBT course that parents have to attend as well. Went to the shops when we were on our way back, so I've bought six new (to me. They all came from charity shops for a pound at most) books. Eight, if you count the ones I bought for the child.

But I did it in a very mindful way.

#Mindfulness #CAMHS #Parenting #SecondHand #Books #Reading #BookHoarding

#UK #NHS #CAMHS

95% of GPs surveyed reported mental health care for children and teens in UK is 'in crisis' or 'inadequate'. I work in adult mental health care but I think this assessment of CAMHS is accurate.

When will it get better? When society demands it, is willing to fund it, elects a government able and willing to deliver it.

Currently, NHS is being run down to increase public perception of failure of the service. Which will make it easier to introduce US-style healthcare-for-profit.