England is “in the grip of a mental health crisis” because of lockdowns, according to the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and under-18s are “bearing the brunt”. The number of children being treated for eating disorders has reached record levels, as well as the number of people reporting being lonely. Here are the key findings:
~ 80,226 more children and young people were referred to CYP mental health services between April and December last year, up by 28% on 2019, to 372,438.
~ 600,628 more treatment sessions were given to children and young people, up by a fifth on 2019 to 3.58 million.
~ 18,269 children and young people needed urgent or emergency crisis care – including assessments to see if someone needs to be sectioned because they or others are at harm – an increase of 18% on 2019, to 18,269.
The data on adults is equally bleak.
Over one million more treatment sessions were given to adults between April and December last year (1,078,539), an increase of 8% on 2019. There were also 159,347 urgent crisis referrals made for adults, an all-time high, and an increase of 2% on 2019.
In November, the Government announced a £500 million support package for mental health services to aid the nation’s recovery from lockdown. The RCPsych has called for this funding – which includes £79 million for children – to reach the frontline as soon as possible. Dr Adrian James, the College’s President, says that services are at a “very real risk of being overrun” because of the scale of the mental health crisis.
“The extent of the mental health crisis is terrifying, but it will likely get a lot worse before it gets better.
“Services are at a very real risk of being overrun by the sheer volume of people needing help with their mental illness.
“While the recent funding announcement is welcome, we need this money to reach mental health services as soon as possible to tackle this crisis.”
The Chair of the college’s Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry added that services were already struggling before Covid struck and now face even greater queues for treatments due to the impact of school closures and the denial of social contact.
“Our children and young people are bearing the brunt of the mental health crisis caused by the pandemic and are at risk of lifelong mental illness.
“As a frontline psychiatrist I’ve seen the devastating effect that school closures, disrupted friendships and the uncertainty caused by the pandemic have had on the mental health of our children and young people.
“Services were already struggling to cope with the number of children needing help before the pandemic hit, and they risk being overrun unless Government ensures the promised money reaches the frontline quickly.”
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Found this Us for Them video of teenagers in Ireland speaking out about masks in the classroom very powerful, in demonstrating the damage to children’s health caused by the Government response.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=CpACkfD5jiE&feature=emb_logo
Thank you for the link, I have fowarded it to my MP, a ‘committed Christian’ as he never fails to remind anyone and a rabid lockdowner and greasy pole climber. I have begged him in the name of humanity to help put a stop to all the restrictions in schools. No doubt I’ll get the same result as always, nothing.
His name is Kevin Foster.
Desperately sad, why aren’t parents protesting more about this ?
Which part of ‘only covid matters’ do you not understand?
Please forgive the adults that betrayed you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSkbd6hRkXo
I for one welcome this discovery, now that our coal and oil are gone, of this giant national resource of illness and decrepitude. Unlike previous cases, this resource is self replenishing and only grows in size the more it is exploited. The great health economy will make us all rich.
and that’s all before the job losses
It’s the mental health of those in charge and those advising them that needs addressing urgently.
How did they get to the point where they are scared of their own shadow?
It’s certainly weird how sociopathy and psychopathy have become normalised.
I think the bulk of the population is “scared” in some way or another and looking for government to “keep them safe”. At risk of being very controversial, lots of people have lost the ability to think for themselves and make up their own minds, based on doing some research, in part because they have become so attuned to giving their decision making over to their mobile phones. I have never had one, have always been prepared to make my own decisions, and from fairly early on have not been overly concerned about covid because, whatever it was, I had most likely already had it and survived with immunity to it or was taking active measures to protect myself [vitamin D and others, and I have continued to research myself throughout the “crisis”.
Wow, what a surprise. The propaganda has been evil – yes, EVIL.
I live in the hope that “I was just following orders” is not accepted as a defense for anyone.
So the cabal of behavoural psychologists and predictive worst case scenario computer ‘scientists’ didn’t factor mental health in?
one hazard of taking public transport is delays due to “person on the track”
Psych Ops is a form of warfare. Exactly what the Government has unleashed on us.
The real difficulty is understanding where the lie stops and truth begins. The delibrate mixing of the two is what has led us here.
I always assumed that the moment they threw the pandemic plan in the bin then everything following was a lie
Yes. I’m still trying to work out that boundary between incompetence and gullibility – and intentionality. Certainly, once that binning had taken place, the incompetent were leading the charge and covering their arses as the first response.
I get the feeling they are spinning it out because when its over we get the autopsy. It feels a bit fuhrer bunker or defence of Berlin – ‘one final push’ etc
Elsewhere on this thread I mentioned an in-house mental health facility. In the first week of lockdown 1. they cleared out as many patients as they could regardless of whether they were fit to be discharged home or wherever.
The managements sole concern was not to have a Covid outbreak on the premises, or to limit the numbers should staff or suppliers bring it in.
That us, not to get sued.
’caused by the pandemic’
I could kill people who say that. I could.
CAUSED BY LOCKDOWN!
Yeah, when I read that I almost screamed out loud.
Early into lockdown lite (last summer) I spoke to a front line mental health practitioner who told me that his existing case load had been made considerably more difficult because being forcibly isolated was the worst possible thing for people suffering mental health issues.
He further said that he was being presented with large numbers of new patients who had been driven to suicidal depression as a result of unemployment or bankruptcy caused by lockdown.
A front line in-patient mental health manager who had continued to work throughout lockdown 1. complained that her managers had partly returned from WFH with a raft of self important new Civid Safety regulations including the demand that all face to face sessions must now be mask to mask.
This made it impossible to do her job of assessing vulnerabilities especially with those patients who were ‘sectioned’ as they saw the mask as an extension of the punishment being visited upon them.
I think I would be more optimistic if people did this with a gun pointed at their heads.
But they volunteer – and it applies to professions where – theoretically – you require some intelligence and analytical ability to function!
That’s exactly what it was.
Johnson and Co. should face prosecution.
I am getting past having words for this episode of lying political damage, and the degree of assent to it.
Sociopaths have once again been permitted to take over the world, with all consequences that impact on the sane – let alone the vulnerable. The impact on children is, indeed, unspeakable.
Like others here, I’ve had some grim stuff to deal with over three-quarters of a century. But never anything that approaches this surrounding, willed evil. I’m told that I’m pretty resilient and level, but I confess that I’m harder pushed than at any time I can recall.
There have been conversations here about the light on the horizon evidenced by people defying the detail of the ‘regulations’. I agree that it is a light – but I see it more as the on-coming train – because it is people accommodating to the situation, not defying or contradicting it. These are individual acts of disobedience, not rebellion. The over-arching assent to the ideology remains.
My family is very much on the sceptical side, although for some it is scepticism about the government measures rather than about the fundamental lies about the severity of the virus. But, in conversation, I have noticed a disturbing tendency. This is not an acceptance of the mythology per se – but an accommodation that suggests that the best thing is just to ignore it as far as possible if you can keep the wider consequences out of sight. So – yes – masks are bad, but hey-ho, not many people now wear them in the street. Ignore it. Nobody is enforcing rules much on trains – so hey-ho – that’s an improvement etc. etc.
More and more, as part of this defence mechanism, I am asked ‘Let’s not talk about this; it’s too depressing.’ So – as language vanishes, so does the problem, and even as late as yesterday evening, I am still hearing (on the box) the government propaganda of “1 in 3 might infect you” : an utter lie that few blink at as the ‘Living Dead’ sit on their sofas with dead eyes that don’t see (that film resonates so much).
Of course – this is the insidious nature of the sociopathic behavioural warriors becoming embedded, and part of a clear strategy to promise, then move, the goalposts and withdraw a little in order to keep the subjugation agenda going (the ‘vaccine’ scam, moving the end of the rainbow, is the latest and most egregious example).
All this is wider evidence of an evil, evil assault on mental health – even amongst the sane. No wonder about those figures; I bet the actuality is even worse.
It’s a tricky balancing act. Being driven mad by this won’t help anyone, but simply accepting it won’t either.
Yes, Julian – you’re right. I’m certainly not shunning those I’m fond -friends and family – of because they’re not volunteering to get their arses shot off. But in the wider circle, I feel that I’m treated with a certain wariness even when I’m just stating pretty easily confirmed hard facts. I’ve learned not to pick arguments because it’s a dead end, but I do drop in the odd factual statement still; but the eyes remain blank.
‘Humankind cannot bear very much reality’.
So very true, Rick.
My partner is sceptical, but increasingly he is ignoring it all and just getting on with life. As you say, accepting the lie.
He had the jab because he wants to go abroad. He is not sceptical about the harm that it might do, and does not even want to talk about the fact that the jab is not the key to unlocking.
Now he is not really interested in talking about any of this sh*t, unless there is some new aspect that comes up.
My mental health would be much better if I just accepted it but I can’t. I have invested too much in scepticism. A bit like the government’s approach, really!!!
Anyone who has a jab to get a foreign holiday this year is a part of the problem, I’ve told my family as much. Anyone who willingly goes along with this is the reason it continues.
I do however feel for them, life shouldn’t be about constant fear and pain, talking about this, staying abreast of the latest lies is exhausting. I can see that bringing it up to someone causes them anguish, ignorance literally is bliss.
I expect the same 20% of people who are resistant to hypnosis are on this site often, once you have seen you cannot un-see it.
I just wish someone with some money and clout would tell us what we can do, rather than simply saying what is happening. For example should I stand for local election?
What is the true path back to (to) open and honest democracy and common sense. If we are too far to the left then we may see a big snap back to the right and I’m not sure I’m really bothered at this point, they made their bed.
“I expect the same 20% of people who are resistant to hypnosis are on this site often“
I think you’re right about particular individual psychological resistance. The frightening issue is how few seem to have it.
I’ve often felt as if this is a Derren Brown spectacular waiting for a de-brief.
once you have seen you cannot un-see it
And that, in a nutshell, is why I cannot just forget about it all and live life by working away around the restrictions. Have we got some form of PTSD problem?
Yes, Felice, I empathize.
My partner doesn’t believe a word of this crap. But – we had a long talk about it yesterday – her coping method is to avoid talking about it as much as possible. Ironically, that is because she fully realizes that the main issues are political, and she cannot stand constantly thinking about those wider implications for society that she feels she has no control over.
My stepson has throughout been sceptical. But he said to me last week that he just couldn’t let the negativity get further in the way of living as far as the situation allowed.
Again – these attitudes are not coming from selfish people looking for foreign holidays and getting into pubs. Ironically, one of the reasons for them getting jabbed is genuinely to take a sceptical chance to protect me, FFS, and to demolish hurdles in seeing more distant family and the shit-scared in general.
Evil indeed!
Your mental health would not be better, and your spiritual health would be seriously damaged.
Absolutely brilliant post – I couldn’t agree with you more and being told not to talk about it because it is too depressing, even within families, which is also my experience feels like I am being censored by my own family which I am finding very difficult to deal with, it is like “if we don’t talk about it then it isn’t happening”. And the “assent” which you describe has people feeling like they are virtuous precisely because they are assenting and complying with what is imposed which does not scientifically stand up to scrutiny.
What about the ‘free’ option. Call the whole thing off, the unterrified can show/help the others to see what a fraud it is. £500 million saved at a stroke.
£500 million is selling it very short indeed – how much did the useless track and trace cost? 37 billion??? and that is just for starters.
Back in Spring 2020, there was much speculation about the rate of Covid deaths among BAME doctors and healthcare workers.
I might be wrong, but there didn’t seem to be anywhere near the same level of media coverage of the issue during the second (& third??) wave
Is this right? If so, why would this be? Is it just that the deaths are still happening but the MSM have got bored with it or is that are BAME health workers better protected.
I’ve heard anecdotal evidence which suggests that BAME doctors have been increasing their vitamin D uptake but have no idea if this is true – and to what extent.
It might make an interesting comparison if we had some reliable data.
“if we had some reliable data.“
Thereby hang so many tails!
What the media cover and what the govt focus on is not driven by logic or any desire for the truth, but by the need to perpetuate the narrative they adopted in March 2020 and have not deviated from since, despite the wealth evidence to the contrary
This makes what has happened all the more despicable – not only have many damaging wrong turnings been taken, but for political reasons there has been a decision to ignore reality or not look into what might be useful for fear of seeming to change their minds, and undoubtedly lives have been lost as a result
I think you are right Mayo that the deaths ended after BAME doctors started taking vitamin D but hard to find verification of this. This is about all I can immediately find (from 9th October 2020)
http://www.drdavidgrimes.com/2020/10/covid-19-and-vitamin-d-summary-of.html
These deaths came to an abrupt end at the beginning May and this could have been result of mail-shots sent to BAME doctors by BPAIO (British Physicians of Asian and Indian Origin), advising them to take a vitamin D supplement. The government sent no such advice.
And this also from David Grimes on 22nd November 2020
http://www.drdavidgrimes.com/2020/11/covid-19-vitamin-d-deaths-of-doctors.html
It was obvious that these doctors had just one factor in common, a melanin-rich skin. They would not have experienced socio-economic disadvantage nor small overcrowded houses. They would have almost certainly been deficient in vitamin D, but awareness of this was not general. However it was known by Professor Parag Singhal, endocrinologist and the national secretary of the British Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO) and Dr David C Anderson former Professor of Endocrinology and Professor of Medicine.
The black arrow in Figure 2 indicates April 29th. On this day they sent to all BAME doctors working in England and Wales a communication indicating that they would all be very much at risk from serious or fatal Covid-19 because of likely vitamin D deficiency. They were strongly advised to take take a vitamin D supplement in good dose of about 3,000 units per day, ideally after a single loading dose of 100,000 units, and this was supplied as necessary.
And these extracts tells you who the villains and heroes are
VILLAINS
The pandemic of Covid-19 provided an opportunity to correct widespread vitamin D deficiency and at the same time to conduct a wide range of clinical trials with assessment of the clinical value of vitamin D. Unfortunately with a few exceptions research bodies seem to have been asleep. The Covid-19 Therapeutics Accelerator (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plus Wellcome Foundation) refuses to fund any research relating to vitamin D
HEROES
We must be thankful for professors Parag Singhal and David Anderson for their direct well-informed action.
excellent posts Free Cumbria – these should be included in any inquiry into the management of the pandemic which is unlikely ever to happen!!!
I have experienced this first hand with both my teenage daughters during lockdown. Two healthy, intelligent, active girls suffering significant mental, emotional and/or eating issues, requiring prolonged and expensive medical treatment. I can’t start to describe how much I despise what this government has down with the lockdown – and in many ways I feel like my family has got off lightly compared to others.
… and plop! An aged royal falls off his perch – after an exceptionally long and well-privileged life – and blocks out any possible coverage of the real tragedies that are happening, as BBC journalists fulfil their destiny across all channels by broadcasting sentimental clap-trap.
Interesting ratio of concern there!
Hey-ho, wish I was 99 this year, oh and a price.
Yes – for those of us with definably many less years to enjoy, this focus from a propaganda corporation that is helping to bugger the few that we’ve got left is beyond satire.
Now for a socially distanced funeral, six mourners only, all knickered vaxtards, no hugging.
I emailed my child’s primary school head teacher about the wellbeing of the children in her school. My wee one was coming home saying she felt sick, she would come out of the school gate crying, at home she would say she hated school and didn’t want to go back, she told me lots of her friends were off sick or pretending to be ill to stay home. My child is very content and sociable and always enjoyed school, she couldn’t wait to go back to be with her friends so this was concerning. When I asked what was upsetting her it soon became apparent that all the covid measures they had put in place had made the school day almost unbearable… All staff must maintain a 2m distance from children, if they have to ‘get close’ to a child they must wear a mask. Children must stay in bubbles, the playground has been marked out and each class must stay within their allocated zone, if it’s raining children must stay in the class and remain sitting at their desk AT ALL TIMES, they can’t get up to get scrap paper or speak with other classmates. They are not allowed to do any group work outside their bubble, there is no singing or music, activities are limited.
The reply I got back was simply unbelievable to me. She refused to mention anything about the wellbeing of the children, and instead gave me the usual claptrap about it being a global health emergency and that she had to think about the welfare of her staff who hadn’t all had vaccines (wonder if they want them now). That the measures were necessary because of the new more transmittable strains of the virus, and more garbage to that effect.
This is from a woman I once had a lot of respect for….
mental. my daughters’ primary school is running as normal – apart from staggered mealtimes
I’m in Scotland where everything is now mental, and I also didn’t add that the school is now in effect sealed off to all parents. You are not allowed in the school building, a large plastic box is left outside the main door and if your child has forgotten anything you have to leave it in the box… I kid you not, it’s insane. You are not allowed in the school grounds without a face mask on, a teacher stands at the gate with a box of masks handing them out to anyone without one.. It is simply staggering.. oh and she also said that she had concerns from parents (which I believe) about people who were turning up to collect their kids without facemasks on OUTSIDE and that this was scaring the children seeing parents in the play ground without masks on…. I asked her why we are filling children with so much fear for a virus that does not harm them… She didn’t reply to my email
At least you tried – it sounds horrific. I feel for you.
I think if I had a child and that was happening in their school and I could I would do home schooling for a while.
I think some of these head teachers have taken all the guidance literally and not thought through the consequences on the children in their care. It’s interesting that any form of abuse is a safeguarding issue if disclosed so if this situation was the other way around and your child had disclosured what is psychological abuse to a teacher at school then the safeguarding procedure would be implemented. Should really work both ways.
I really thought about that. When I got her response it took me days to get over it. She actually said that as a headteacher of a local hub ( our school acted as a hub for the area and was open through out lockdown) she was aware that the prevalence of the virus was higher than we might be aware… This is just hogwash I actually felt like I had to reassure her through out my email that things are actually a lot better than they were before Christmas and that the prevalence was at really low levels.
I am just grateful that it’s Easter. I have spent this whole year trying to keep my kids insulated from this hysteria and insanity, maybe that’s why it hit my wee one so hard when she went back and the school was covid crazy. I don’t know what to do when they return on the 19 th. I have already emailed the Department of Education twice and it’s the same crap… Scotland is signed up to a zero covid policy but they are just not willing to come out and admit it or admit the impact that it’s having on the kids.
Sorry I’m ranting but it’s raw.
Zero Covid??? don’t they realise that the virus doesn’t recognise the porous border with England which doesn’t yet have a zero covid policy ergo covid in England can travel into Scotland – literally across the road in some cases. Utter madness Nicola Sturgeon.
Clearly, this is headteachers making crap, ill-informed decisions, because all schools are not like this.
But I’m regarding it as the real sickness (not a simple choice issue). These people are really suffering an induced psychosis.
Take the poor lassie out of school. She isn’t being educated. Make a group with other sane parents and start your own school.
Our local MP, Dr Dan Poulter, Ipswich, is a practicing psychiatrist. He has voted for all the lockdowns and other restrictions. I have written to him several times, each time stating that he was a disgrace the medical profession, of which I was also a member.
Well that’s interesting! On the one hand we have the RCP warning of the increase in demand for mental health services as a consequence of the handling of the ‘pandemic’, and on the other the British Psychological Society dragging its feet over condemning the use of covert psychological techniques used to stoke up the campaign of fear, as updated below by Dr Gary Sidley who is leading the challenge:
“I would like to provide an update on progress (or lack of it) of our efforts to seek the view of the British Psychological Society (BPS) regarding the ethical basis of deploying covert psychological interventions – typically involving fear inflation, scapegoating and shaming – as a central driver of the Government’s coronavirus messaging campaign. The guidance for the Government’s communication strategy comes from the Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours (SPI-B), a subgroup of SAGE. Given that the membership of SPI-B comprises mainly of behavioural scientists and psychologists, and the central stated purpose of the BPS is to ‘promote excellence and ethical practice in the science, education, and application of the discipline’ [my emphasis], it seems reasonable to expect that the BPS would take concerns about unethical psychological interventions very seriously.”
Jamie Wallis MP, one o& the 41 potential rebels is inviting comments on health passports on facebook- he also gives his email address in the posting.
This isn’t caused by the panic but caused by the lockdown.
I believe there is a mental health crisis in the elderly as well. The difference is this is a generation who would not think off seeing a GP because they are anxious, depressed, suicidal. More research needed on this age group.
Extra money is all well and good, but if there aren’t enough trained staff then no amount of extra funding is going to make much difference until more people are trained, which can take years.
The biggest danger is that mental health workers are going to have to spend all their time helping people with serious problems, and not be able to support people with less serious problems. This will lead to many people who currently have moderate mental health problems seeing their mental health get worse, at which point they will need far more professional help than they otherwise would’ve done. This will mean staff will still not have time to help people with less serious problems, and the country becomes stuck in a vicious cycle that is incrediably hard to break.
The same applies to physical health problems e.g. cancer. The longer people have to wait for treatment the worse their condition becomes and the more treatment they need, meaning there’s less early treatment available.
It’s going to take years, or maybe a decade to get out of the mess Bozo and the other clowns have made.
I question the true figures of people with mental health issues. I don’t believe everyone who is asking for help is receiving it. I have been prescribed antidepressants without speaking never mind seeing a doctor, a member of the mental health team organised it. No follow up and it’s all done by self referral online. I’m fortunate that I understand my problem and have learned coping mechanisms. Someone who has never suffered from anxiety or depression before 2020 will not be so lucky.
The government has created mental health problems in people who don’t realise they actually need help. I speak of the people who are now so scared of dying from one virus that they have stopped living, which in turn creates anxiety for the family and friends who see what is happening to their loved ones and do nothing to help them.
The biggest mental health crisis is sitting in schools, I have read of one headmaster in Scotland and one in England who are looking after the pupils in their care, the rest of the schools, be it a minority of teachers in each school are so badly damaged by the propaganda they have been listening to and believing that covid is the most dangerous virus ever and are now passing on their fears to our children.
The parents that are sharing photos of the damage done to their children’s hands, caused by teachers making the children wash their hands numerous times a day is concerning, the brainwashing of the children in school by their teachers who believe the government is helping, is going to create in my opinion even more mental health issues among our children for a long time. Unless someone puts a stop to the abuse from being allowed to continue in our schools.
I would recommend in the first instance to have all adults teachers in particular assessed by psychologists now before any more damage is done but that won’t happen until the government stops the blatant propaganda now.