I don’t think those in power actually care. More worried about children accessing porn than worrying about the mental health crisis with record numbers of 15-19 year olds ending their lives.
My older child was rushed into hospital by me at high speeds at 5am as he was screaming in pain. Got him in hospital eventually needed a piece of his bowel removed but once he was settled given painkillers etc he just lay there. All the old men in their 80s around him, you know the hardcore WW2 generation that can get thru everything, can do attitude etc were whining like toddlers:
Why is there only one type of jam
The fries are too hard
It’s not fair my wife has to get 2 buses to get here to take me home
Using a mobile on speaker and shouting into it
Shouting 24 hours a day HELP MEEEEEEEE
Honestly these are the people held up who are supposedly stiff upper lip types and they were moaning babies none of them had had emergency surgery like my son had AND after going 11 days without eating and being fed 12 hours a day via a PICC (central line) once he was eating him they discharged him and a week later he started university.
I just don’t know what we’re going to do he’s diabetic so we can’t keep his diabetes meds locked up indefinitely and all that. Trouble is the people making these decisions have never suffered a mental health crisis themselves and that’s why they fail utterly.
No one in crisis is thinking ill open an app and check that out or i’ll watch a video to talk me out of it. The reason you’re contemplating doing that is because your brain is in a full on health crisis it is litterally not working properly at that moment and you aren’t capable of rational thought because if you were you wouldn’t be doing what you’re doing. Telling kids in such situations to call childline etc just aint gonna help.
On top of that if said child has ASD stuff going on they don’t talk to strangers anyway