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Data from nearly half of the organizations within England's National Health Service (NHS) has shown that around 60 percent of under-18s who are referred to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) by their doctor are not receiving any treatment.
Meanwhile, the number of young people admitted to Accident and Emergency departments for self-harm increased for the seventh year running.
The vast majority of self-harm admissions were girls, accounting for 77 percent of cases over the period from 2010 to 2016. However, there has also been an increase among boys.
The figures were obtained by children's charity Spurgeons using Freedom of Information requests.
"The facts are harrowing. At least four young people in every secondary school class are now self-harming," said Spurgeons' Assistant Psychologist Jag Basra. "Within the last decade we've seen a considerable rise in the range of mental health issues impacting young people, in part due to social media pressures and the ongoing stigma towards speaking about our mental health.
"Ultimately the long term-implications of self-harm are frightening, and in some cases fatal, and it is for this reason that addressing self-harm needs to be a major public health priority."
Basra explained that some children and young people use self-harming as a coping strategy to manage heightened emotions. This increases the risk of recurring self-harm incidents.
Spurgeons is calling on commissioners in England and Wales to look at alternative solutions to the adolescent mental health crisis.
The charity has created a program for young people who self-harm and their families. Spurgeons' Family Intervention for Self-Harm therapeutic program (FISH) aims to help those young people who don't have a formal mental health diagnosis and therefore do not qualify for specialist mental health support services.
"We know these are hard times and NHS budgets have many competing priorities. We believe that charities like ours can play a crucial role in helping to safeguard these vulnerable young people," the charity's CEO Ross Hendry said. "FISH will ease the pressure on CAMHS, enabling them to increase the rates of young people they treat who are at crisis point."
The basis of loss of mental coping is of psychic-emotional breakdown - read "relational communication' breakdown. This also comes in via a broad spectrum of toxicities that undermine consciousness such as heavy metals, pharma drugs, pesticides, endocrine disruptors, anti-biotics.
The 'medicalisation' of life is an invisible state intervention under fake science backed by trillion dollar leverage. In the new version of religious mind-control you are not a sinner, you are sick from birth - (vax) - hold on - back up a bit - you are sick from conception - (pregnancy as a state of sickness).
Human emotional expression and embrace in psychic wholeness is denied and suppressed under a loveless technocracy - no matter how many 'care acts' are passed or targets met. The generation of such a charge of intolerable inner conflict breaks out in 'negative' forms of expression.
For genuine and effective support see the 'Open Dialogue project' but be vigilant for disinfo.
Its a crash course for aligning in a true Sanity - but not only for those who are socially marked out as 'sick'. There is no real relationship in lies and adapting to them is not sanity. But there is the true of you, and relationship that resonates and reflects who you are. If the state had a role in health, it would be to either facilitate needs being truly met - or getting out of the way. But dependency is not considered mental sickness, indeed people are trained to want and need its 'protection'.