Mental Health in Autistic Children, sign petition to help us

[maxxander]

Our middle son was diagnosed with Autism 3 years ago but for the last 12 months he has been increasingly suffering from Anxiety and OCD behaviour to the extent that he has not attended his specialist school for the last 8 months. We have battled with the local NHS services to gain access to Mental Health Care and have been passed from pillar to post, service to service. We are told that Anxiety is part of Autism! It is not. We are told Autism is not in their remit, it is! To date we have still not been referred to a service to help us. We are not the only family struggling to get the help our children desperately need, understanding, funding and commissioning are very lacking and things need to change.12 months ago we had a happy son who happened to be Autistic, now he is a shadow of the child we once knew who suffers from daily meltdowns and is increasingly isolated. Please could you follow the link to the petition we have created,it would be greatly appreciated if you could sign it and share with friends and family to try to right a wrong that many families are struggling with on a day to day basis. https://www.change.org/p/rt-hon-jeremy-hunt-mp-mak...

Edited by maxxander on Wednesday 27th May 13:12