Wij
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Most of you probably know my 10 year old daughter is autistic.
Well since early this year she has been anorexic too, but is still not officially diagnosed.
We decided to raise our concern about her eating with the doctor early in May. 2 weeks wait for an appointment.
Since then everyone we've been in contact has said yes, she is really underweight, but unless she is about to die, which they can tell from the blood tests which we've had loads of times now, they can't actually section her and feed her with a tube. They keep telling us she needs mental health care.
They've recommended a few places but some we found out aren't even available to under 18s.
Apparently CAMHS is the only organisation that can actually do anything but when we referred her to CAMHS after the GP asked us to in late June they opened a case and CAMHS rang her school. The school just said she eats fine at school and CAMHS closed the case without any say from us.
A couple of days after this the school rang us to say she would have to go on to packed lunches every day because she wouldn't eat school dinners.
We tried a few other avenues to no avail over the summer and her general mental well-being continued to deteriorate. She can't even stand the sound of the cats meowing now and cries and wails and screams and scratches us constantly. She is desperately unwell. According to the charts her weight is in the bottom 1% for girls her age. She looks like a skeleton. We took her to A&E after one night where she had a complete breakdown because my wife and I ate a curry which she found horrifying. The doctor at the hospital finally managed to get us a new case with CAMHS but they stopped returning our calls.
When she went back to school they actually rang us up to ask us if we'd noticed that she was losing weight. I held back my urge to tell them to fuck right off and explained all the things we've done over the summer and after a few more conversations they decided to give CAMHS a ring themselves to support our case.
Things finally appear to be moving now (fingers crossed) but the whole system is fucked. She could be dead.
Rant over.
Well since early this year she has been anorexic too, but is still not officially diagnosed.
We decided to raise our concern about her eating with the doctor early in May. 2 weeks wait for an appointment.
Since then everyone we've been in contact has said yes, she is really underweight, but unless she is about to die, which they can tell from the blood tests which we've had loads of times now, they can't actually section her and feed her with a tube. They keep telling us she needs mental health care.
They've recommended a few places but some we found out aren't even available to under 18s.
Apparently CAMHS is the only organisation that can actually do anything but when we referred her to CAMHS after the GP asked us to in late June they opened a case and CAMHS rang her school. The school just said she eats fine at school and CAMHS closed the case without any say from us.
A couple of days after this the school rang us to say she would have to go on to packed lunches every day because she wouldn't eat school dinners.
We tried a few other avenues to no avail over the summer and her general mental well-being continued to deteriorate. She can't even stand the sound of the cats meowing now and cries and wails and screams and scratches us constantly. She is desperately unwell. According to the charts her weight is in the bottom 1% for girls her age. She looks like a skeleton. We took her to A&E after one night where she had a complete breakdown because my wife and I ate a curry which she found horrifying. The doctor at the hospital finally managed to get us a new case with CAMHS but they stopped returning our calls.
When she went back to school they actually rang us up to ask us if we'd noticed that she was losing weight. I held back my urge to tell them to fuck right off and explained all the things we've done over the summer and after a few more conversations they decided to give CAMHS a ring themselves to support our case.
Things finally appear to be moving now (fingers crossed) but the whole system is fucked. She could be dead.
Rant over.
