our experience with CAMHS // Rosie and Abbie
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- čas přidán 26. 03. 2018
- Hi Everyone, today we filmed about or experience with CAMHS, we hope this helps someone! Unfortunately some of the clips have disappeared but if you have any questions leave them below and we will do our best to reply!
Hope you enjoy! x
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I have been to CAMHS and my experience has been quite bad... I went to my appointment on Wednesday just to be told that the way i am feeling (low mood most of the time and anxiety) is a normal thing for my age and so they have discharged me. I honestly feel worse than when i began going there and now i feel like i am making it all up in my head! Its so frustrating not being believed! Xxx
Thats horrible - please know that even if CAMHS don't help you, there are lots of places out there that can help! xx
I've been referred 6 months ago for serious issues but still haven't been assessed :/
Something needs to change with CAMHS. I've been in the system for 2 years. Nothing has changed except I now feel guilty about my problems and I'm far more traumatised. My 'low mood and anxiety' is turning out to be far more complicated then that and they didn't even notice.
The Cahms im with are really good. I was referred when i was 7 and im 13 now. Theyve helped me really well and im so much better. My OCD is alot less and (Side note: I have Autism) theyve helped me alot with communication and social skills. E.g shopping, conversations, replying to things, and stuff like that. Theyve actually spent sessions up to 6 hours with me. I used to not speak or very little and now i speak a lot better. Although i still struggle with new people. They started with art therapy and got me to speak through words to them when i was 10. And then we started exposure therapy which is really scary but really helpful :) ❤
I was discharged from the eating disorder unit because they thought I was ‘recovered’ after around a month. Nope I’m just a good liar and I hated seeing them. Every time they would weigh me and talk to my parents, they never addressed the mental health aspect of it. I’m still struggling now and everyone thinks I’ve recovered. I now have to see my gp for depression as it keeps getting worse.
i’ve just been referred to camhs,and all i’ve heard is bad things about it like how if ur not bad enough then they discharge you?
They are not bad where I live I go there at the moment And I've been with them a year now and they are still helping me around self harm and depression
@@cookiealfie3073 wait do you have to stay there ever night
How is it?
i got my appointment tomorrow and am so scared that i won’t be prescribed antidepressants
BONECLACKERS my mum insists on going in with me and I’m scared to talk about my real feelings while she’s there, like when she took away my blades and I turned to not eating for four days to distract myself.
Can I just tell her that I’d like to go in alone? I’m scared that I’ll never get the help that I need if I feel forced to lie about what I was feeling
GHøŠT_girl 07 im really sorry that you feel like that :/ ik that it has been a while now and i hope things have gotten better for you, if it’s still an issue i would say maybe try to ask whoever you are talking to if you can do this alone and maybe they would ask your parent to leave? or maybe ask your mum herself and it will be ok❤️
GHøŠT_girl 07 this was posted a while ago so probably not relevant anymore but they always ask you if you want to go in alone or w parent beforehand and u can just tell rhem u want to be alone!
this is so helpful as i’m going for my camhs assessment tomorrow and i’m in the bedfordshire district as well. i’m so nervous because i struggle talking to others due to my anxiety but i hope they can give me the help i need
I’m going camhs soon, I’m 12, it’s because of anger, hyper ness, and my un focused in school work I’m almost 13 Xx I feel down most of time, my head of year has put me with emotional support along with ELSA, still feel down and feel worse Xxx
my experience with camhs:
first off, hi. im xeno (not my real name, just my online name) and my experience with camhs hasnt just been bad, but traumatic.
im 12 at the moment and so far i have 2 experiences with camhs (neither where good whatsoever) one when i was 4-5, and the other just a few months ago (just before i turned 12). both for autism. i dont remember most of my first experience except what my parents said; they dont listen.
ok. so now here is me going into depth about my recent one.
so this started when i was still 10 (in year 6) so its been well over 2 years.
my teacher in year 6 was a lying, two-faced bitch who seemed to dislike me due to my autistic tendancies (excessive fidgeting, never making eye contact, sensory overloads) and so when camhs sent them the report to fill out, they basically said i was making everything up and lying (this may seem irrelavent, but i promise it does become relevant later!)
so then came the day of the initial video call, which was with someone who specialised in autism, and the only good/tolerable thing about the process. he said i had all of the signs of autism in those who where born female. i was like 'ok, cool ig' and then he followed up with 'but i cant diagnose you, you have to wait 14 months' (IM NOT JOKING, THAT WAS THE WAIT TIME. )
12 months later, they where ignoring us, and there was no letter for this assesment even though it was in less than 2 months.
literally 2-3 WEEKS before the assesment, the letter finally comes through.
now, the wait to get assesed after you walk into the building was over 1 hour.
i finally got into the assesment and they didnt listen to anything i said at all and it felt really invalidating. and the reasons i couldnt get diagnosed: my teacher did not write antthing down and i didnt fit the exact, textbook definition of autism. the disorder is literally called autism SPECTRUM disorder.
camhs obviously try get people off of the list instead of helping them.
I'm having a similar experience. My family is going into debt to get me to a private professional and it makes me so guilty.
this is interesting as i have actually had a very positive experience with cahms. very very different to yours, maybe the system near where i live is better. it's such a shame people have had bad experiences💛💛
i was referred to camhs in february this year :) they havent helped at all sadly, and just are not listening to me at all. i just feel so hopeless because they really dont care
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Honestly my experience with Chams was terrible I was there for 2 years and it was the worst experience ever , I went into chams with anorexia and I came out of it with bulimia and a binge eating disorder, their only objective was to make me gain weight and they ignored all the things I was telling them , and in all honesty as soon as I reached the weight they wanted me to be they kept telling me I’m going to feel better but I never did , so eventually they wanted to give me antidepressants but I refused , In the end I lied my way out of chams because they weren’t going to help me
I had my assessment within 1 month of my school referring me it took 2 months too finally get the letter for my sessions now I have to go to CAMHS on the 15th May for weekly group sessions. I’m nervous about if people judge me😭😭💔💔 I don’t know what to do. I’m scared😭😭💔💔
I’ve got referred today :;
They won't judge there not allowed phoebe meredith
The one in Ireland is equally shit I was told there was nothing wrong with me when there clearly was fukin fools they are no one thinks they're helpful. Love the video keep going until your voices are heard. Xx
I’m having a very similar experience to you, Abbie, urgh :( I love your cardigan, by the way! Where’s it from? xx
its from topshop ages ago! xx
Rosie and Abbie Thank you! xx
I’m going to Camhs in January
Good luck sweetie xx
Thankyou 🥰
Can i refuse it? they sent me stuff and i dont want to do it i cant be asked, there is nothing wrong with me lol
i got referred last friday, got a really quick assesment on monday and i'm getting cbt this thursday
but i guess it is quite serious
*I just realised, my assessment is in 4 days, fuck*
Tell us how you do xx
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