Worth looking at trending topic 'CAMHS' (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services) right now. We aren't providing good service to everyone who needs it. We're often providing a weird service to people who do because CAMHS gets blown about by cultural ideas about mental health
Yes, I know people don't really share much about healthcare experiences that went well, but people's experiences of CAMHS that are being shared present CAMHS as contextless set of unexplained events where things happen for no reasons instead of a place of help and support.
With CAMHS wider cultural winds are like "We need to give children/ young people every support they need for their mental health unless we don't. We don't medicalise distress, unless we do, but we might not again, keep you on yr toes. If you don't want service, you can have it."
One of things that comes across in the comments on twitter there is the idea that CAMHS is just not very good at communicating with children and young people about what is actually going on and why. My parcel delivery gives better updates and more context.
Another thing I notice is that young people and young adults have grown up in a different context around mental health. People might actually want help and support, might actually wish to have a name for what ails them. Not everyone, mind, but some. There's a bitterness there
I think for professionals who work in CAMHS message should be 'Yes, I'm sure you do a great job for the young people you see, but what about young people you don't? What is your service in the lives of young people? You feel beleaguered, so how must young people in need feel?'
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