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Last year , aged 17 my daughter disclosed that she'd been abused, & raped by someone she considered a big broth to her. His mum was essentially her best friend. She has been hearing voices, experiences flashbacks and nightmares. She was initially cared for by the adolecent mental health team, however a few days before she became 18 the adolescent team announced she'd been referred to adult care, and was no longer in their caseload. That was January, and she has stil not recieved any support despite frequent phonecalls, trips to the gp, calls to the crisis team, out of hours gps visiting at 3am, and police calling to do welfare checks. She won't talk to me about whats happening, and I just don't know where to go next. Surely somethings gone wrong with her care? Its 4 month since she last had support. She is currently on antidepressants & beta blockers after being diagnosed with PTSD depression & anxiety.
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Hello cgcookie, i'm so sorry to hear about what has happened to your daughter this must be very difficult for you aswell are you getting any support?
Unfortunately there is a gap in services between children and adult mental health services, it is something to do with how each sector define who they support and young people between 17 - 19 seem to fall through the net and are left without the support they need.
There are people out there that are trying to rectify this.
Are you able to access counselling through your GP or privately in the interim?
See this Link for mental health helplines one of them maybe able to suggest away forward.
thanks for your replies, its good to be able to actually talk about whats happening; especially when it's almost 2am and my daugters in crisis.
Imdoingthis, For a while I did keep ringing the keyworker from the adolescent team, I was told after 2 weeks not to ring them again as they were no longer involved in her care. I had earlier, while she was under their care made a complaint to the team leader, however things didn't improve. in fact it got worse (another story). and of course by this time childrens services were no longer involved either. brick wall.
Sally W, we visit our Gp regularly, he's chasing things up but needs to know what kind of help her psychiatrist thinks is best. the psychiatrist doesn't reply to his emails, calls or letters, except for a standardised 'please provide her medication'
her original social worker recomended from the start that she was seen by one worker, because of th trust issues the abuse had caused. the adolescent team sent 8 different people despite social services pulling them up about this. Its a coincidence that yo mention about 17-19 yr olds falling into a gap in services, as hunting for a support route online, i found the adolescent teams, nhs page/service description which says
'A comprehensive transition support package to those young people who are approaching their 18th birthday and may need continuing support as adults.'
I don't know whether to laugh, scream or cry!!
I agree that the transition to adult mental health support is very patchy. The daughter of a friend of mine has experienced the same. Things like the experiences your daughter has had....yes they are unbelieveably awful but there is a difference in responsibility levels between "treating a child who has been abused and treating an adult who has been abused as a child" Do you see what I mean? I am not saying it is right but to a certain extent you will need to start looking for services on your own, and these could include counselling. As a first step, have a look at this article. There are some useful organisations listed....as support for you as well. My heart goes out to you and your daughter and I do hope you soon get the help that is needed.
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It defiantly sounds as if something's gone wrong with your daughters care,
The way I see it is that the responsibility lies with her last worker from the adolescent team who it seems has failed to refer correctly to the adult team, I would call and ask to speak to that person on a daily basis until they deal with this, every day I'd call and I'd also put in a official complaint too.
I hope you get this resolved quickly so your daughter gets the help she needs to recover from this and that she rightly deserves too.
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