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"I dont know what to feel."

When I first joined CAMHS it was nearly 2 years ago now and after the first 6-8 Months of going I started to feel worse rather than better. After a year at CAMHS I found out that the therapist I had been put with was a family therapist and worked with families going through divorce etc, rather than a nurse that could help me in terms of suicide, anxiety and self-harm. I feel now like I'm not being taken seriously anymore now that I have been there nearly 2 years. In a session recently I got told that the only reason that I was still in CAMHS was because of bereavement and not because of the things I was originally brought in for. It upset me to hear this because I very clearly wasn't happy that day and they could see that.

CAMHS in Doncaster town centre is not a place that I feel comfortable going anymore and I feel like I need therapy to counteract for the lack of therapy there is there. CAMHS should not be a place where young people or adults are afraid to go.

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Response from Doncaster CAMHS 6 years ago
Doncaster CAMHS
Submitted on 23/01/2018 at 14:06
Published on nhs.uk at 15:07


I am very sorry to hear of your experiences of our CAMHS, this is not the experience we would wish our young people to have of this service.

If you would like to contact our Patient Advice and Liaison Service to discuss this further, they can look into your concerns in more detail and provide you with a response which may help you.

You can contact PALS on 0800 0154334 or email rdash.pals@nhs.net

Laura Powell

Compliance Officer

Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust

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