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Youth Mental Health Crisis Worsening

Beyond Advocacy

She was being treated by a conventional therapist who diagnosed her with schizophrenia. However, the most poignant testimony was that of Tina Harris, an NFYI Youth Delegate who told her story about receiving mental health treatment during her years in foster care. Her “treatment” kept her in a state of anxiety.

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Vulnerable woman lay dead in Surrey flat for more than three years

The Guardian

Laura Winham, 38, had severe mental illnesses and was ‘abandoned’ by NHS and social services, family allege A severely mentally ill woman whose dead body lay in her home unnoticed for more than three years was effectively “abandoned and left to die” by NHS and social services who missed repeated chances to save her, her family has alleged.