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Individual who have attempted or completed transition
Parent/carer of individual who has attempted or completed transition

Individual who did not attempted transition
Adult currently in mental health services
friend of individual who has completed transition
Individual who hasn't completed a transition
someone not involved in it at all but has people from their school who have transitioned
Individual with experience of adolescent mental health services
Individual who was previously part of CAMHS
adult who used private mental health services as a child
Individual who is in the process of transitioning
“British Irish” is not an ethnicity. This is pure British imperialism at its finest

Employed Part Time (up to 39 hours per week)
Unemployed and Not Currently Looking for Work
Unemployed and Currently Looking for Work
Employed Full Time (40 hours or more per week)

Anxiety dissociative stress-related somatoform and other nonpsychotic mental disorders
Pervasive and specific developmental disorders
Mental disorders due to known physiological conditions
Behavioral syndromes associated with physiological disturbances and physical factors
Behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence
Disorders of adult personality and behaviour

Reaction to severe stress and adjustment disorders

Neurologist for one, psychologist for the others

I honestly hate the audacity of English people

How are you at university level and THAT ignorant

“British Irish” is not an ethnic background

Lived with other family member in their home
Lived with adoptive parents in family home
Lived in a residential home/supported living

lived with both parents separately - they are divorced but i live with both
Spent time living in an inpatient hospital and time with both parents in a family home
Lived with both parents and my older brother
You are welcome for me pointing out this error to you

Lived with adoptive parents in family home
Lived with other family member in their home
Lived in a residential home/supported living

This research will have no academic integrity otherwise
Lived at home. During/just after my dad passed away.

Lived with other family member in their home
Lived in a residential home/supported living
Lived with adoptive parents in family home

Living away from family home with partner
Living with Partner in rented accommodation
Currently live in private rented with my partner

I didn't feel that I needed to be in services anymore as I was an adult and felt I could take care of myself, so I didn't co-operate very much and lied a lot about my mental state in order to be discharged as soon as possible
I didnt transition at first, I stopped going to CAHMS and only went back into private AHMS later on in life when I was desperate.
I was not given any information. I knew I wanted to go into adult services but I would've had to find all of the information myself, which was difficult due to my low motivation/mood
The waiting lists to receive any help from adult services are ridiculous so my mental health got even worse. I was also forced to do group therapy as soon as I started with the adult services even though I was adamant it wouldn't help and I wanted individual. Couldn't relate to a single thing being said because I had literally just turned 18 and had never had a job and everyone else in the room was 25+ with full time jobs
Although I felt I was not recovered I was discharged and told I was not eligible for AMHS
After finishing treatment at the age of 17 I was informed that I would remain registered with the service for 6 months and if I felt I needed support again I could come back and self-refer.
the youth service ran for up to 16 year olds and the adult service started at 18
I was discharged from CAMHS when I turned 18 and was not properly informed on my options
Did not have a lot of information about it
Was unsure of different options available for my mental health
CAMHS just discharged me when i became 18 years old and didnt consider transitioning me when I needed the help. I ended up in the care of AMHS approximately 8 months later after crisis
I did not go to camhs - I was private due to the stories I heard about the transition from home to uni care
Didn't get help at all from CAMHS to transfer me to adult services. Was basically told "bye" and had to sort it out myself.
was not needed as I only used medication
I started CAMHS and then decided to pull myself out. It wasn't until i started university that i was recommended AHMS, therefore my transition was difficult, as it was one i did not know I needed.
I wasn't referred to CAMHS went I went to see my GP, and so I wasn't transitioned from CAMHS to AMHS
long waiting period for assessment and review to get the help you need
because I was young and didn't feel fully informed of consented to this treatment.
There was insufficient communication between my CAMHS psychiatrist and the gp in charge of the transition.
uncertainty about new clinician plays on your anxiety
only went to camhs, left because it wasnt helping before i knew amhs even existed
Did not transition - was discharged from CAMHS
Was dropped and was not transistioned. Only transistioned when things got worse
I felt like I was not kept informed about what both CAMHS and AMHS were currently doing with my case
Constant battle to be transferred, took so long that i just learnt to cope without it so stopped trying.
I had no formal tranisition between I stopped seeking mental health support between the ages of 16 and 19 so by the time I left CAMHS and then started seeking help again at age 19 I was already an adult. It was more a case of starting over rather than transitioning.
trying to get into CAHMS proved difficult enough, so i stayed with private healthcare for that, i have done some therapy under AHMS but a 'transition' was not involved
I was diagnosed just before i turned 18 so was put on medication straight away, then moved away for university.
The time it took for appointments to start and then the time between appointments.
i was discouraged to transition and instead advised to try to support myself independently as i was moving to university. But i felt i should have been given more support, it was as if i became 18 and had shown improvement and therefore was no longer in need of their help. This was slightly disappointing considering the quality of care i was provided with during my time in CAMHS
I see cahms inpatient kids be essentially scared into behaving well in the run up to their 18 because adult services are just nowhere near as person centred
Passed between so many different professionals it got confusing
Because so much stress was happening in my mind I was unable to cope with it.
they refused to take me on because i was living in university halls rather than at home.
It was left to me and i was given a leaflet with no guidance
i was unable to the therapist i had seen as a child, because i was now too old. this was distressing because i was in crisis and unable to speak to the one person who i thought could help me
My GP didn't believe I was capable of having my mental health disorders that severely at such a young age so he kept misdiagnosing me.
was moving to university so services did not account for moving counties
Long waiting times, miscommunication about medications causing delays, was so stressful I soon started seeing a private psychiatrist
Family issues still ongoing during transition
I was not given enough information about transitioning and was discharged and told to sort out adult services by myself if I got worse
Worry of having to describe past feelings which were covered over with the existing therapist, had to dig them up again
CAMHS kick you out then you’re left to self refer yourself again
I felt like I was completely on my own once I hit 18. I didn't receive any information about transitioning - when I looked into it through my GP it would have taken months so I didn't. A couple or years later I went for it and had a horrible experience. I was made to feel like I was crazy, and my voice meant nothing because I was mentally ill. I was given a wrong diagnosis of PTSD, and no treatment options because apparently I wasn't bad enough.
lack of clarity as to whose care i was under because i started the transition before turning 18 and i didn’t think it was very clear as to whether i was an adult or a child. and as my birthday is at christmas, i was told that the systems were shut over christmas so was left in a transition period with no support at all
I believe the pandemic effected my transition as I was unable to complete assessments and do the transition in person and felt like I was not listened to during the online assessments
Cahms said I didn’t need it, when my gp is adamant I do and I know I do aswel
Long waiting lists, ahms service was very far away
I was seeing my 2 camhs workers for an hour each every week and then I went to seeing my adult worker for only half an hour once a week
I wasn't given the option, i was told my mental health conditions were no longer severe enough to qualify despite stating i needed more help, as negative thoughts e.g. suicidal thoughts had returned
My doctor has decided to mess with my medication while I’m transitioning so I have very little support at the moment even though I’m struggling
Because of the age I came into CAMHS, I was weeks away from the age that they would start to transition people to AMHS so I kinda just got lost in the system and they didn't do any followup.
Was trying to get a private, more specific to my issues, service. I did not like Camhs so was reluctant to go to ahms
Forced to move out of care home, made homeless, and got sectioned
the therapy i received in cahms was far better than any adult services offered and i knew things would get worse
I'm 17 and they said I can't transfer till I'm 18 or something really bad happens
Appointments were over the phone due to lockdown so it was hard to build a relationship with a therapist
They just did it whilst i was inpatient and just transferred me without the proper protocl. It was an adult ward
Was told that after nearly 2 years of support from CAHMS, i did not need support from AMHS ( I was leaving CAHMS due to turning 18). I asked to be referred but after 9 months of hearing nothing from AMHS, my mental health took a turn for the worse due to personal circumstances and not having any support at all (I used to receive a lot of support from school as well but had left after completing my A-levels).
I did not find that CAMHS was useful either. After years of deliberating with everyone I could, I was able to get my initial diagnosis of Aspergers from CAMHS revoked (diagnosed with absolutely no basis) and was able to get my real diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. I had to do this through a psychiatrist. Everyone I went to said I couldn't have BPD if I had autism, so I couldn't get treatment for years.
Cahms tried 3 times telling Amhs they recommend taking me on due to how bad my episodes can get and amhs told me and then we’ll if she currently isn’t in an episode she doesn’t need us and now i’ve just turned 18 haven’t got a clue where to get my medication from have no one to talk to and if i had another episode i am just going to have to “deal with it” unless i’m in danger but when i have an episode up or down i almost always put myself in danger as i often suffer hallucinations as well in an episode but no matter how hard cahms and myself have tried to get me transferred amhs always refused on the basis i am not currently in an episode
My referral was put through for the first time in june 2018 but i wasnt told until the week before i turned 18 in November, by November 2018 nothing happened and my support worker went on leave. I then went to a gp to ask for a referral who told me to self refer and did nothing. I then self referred twice with no response until i called the secretaries repeatedly who then said they no record of any referrals in my name. It was june 2019 before i was seen for an assessment and then another month or so until i was seen again but was not assigned any team or anything until winter of 2019 when i was referred to psychology for dbt. During the period of not having a specific team or care coordinator i was seen by multiple people but there was a high turnover and a significant lack of consistency. March 2020 i was contacted by the person id been seeing for a few months to tell me she was taking a sick break, i was not contacted by adult services again other than 2 10 minute calls from a psychiatrist that didnt listen to what id said and was wrote letters to my gp with inaccurate information which affected my care. Ive since left the area and have been referred to amhs in brighton, it was a faster process to start with but has now been around 2 months with no communication and ive been referred to the well being team which have never seen me due to my issues being more than they deal with in that sector so im not hopeful that I'll be receiving care for a while which i do understand is not the fault of any of the individuals i have interacted with over the past 5 years and hold no resentment or blame towards the individuals but more so the system because my experience is in no way unique, many friends had very similar experiences.sorry if this is too much information or not what was needed
I received much less support in AMHS than in CAMHS. When I was 18, I experienced a severe mental health crisis while I was still being supported by CAMHS. My CAMHS team wanted to admit me, but as I was 18 the admission would be to an adult ward, and adult services didn't think I was high risk enough for admission. The criteria to get help in CAMHS and AMHS are extremely different, and mostly in a bad way. I feel like when I transitioned to AMHS I was just left by services to rapidly deteriorate.
Adult mental health services are way worse than camhs. Theres no inpatient beds and the wait lists for help are far too long. Youre only classed as a priority if youre actively trying to kill yourself, basically ignoring everyone else who needs help
i wasn’t given much/ any information on the transition or told what was happening
I chose not to transition to adult services as my experience in cahms was so awful as the person handling my sessions would constantly talk over me, I chose to go to private mental health care after ending my sessions early with the cahms handler
It was from a specialist CAMHS DBT team to an adult DBT team - I hated the DBT approach, but felt I had to accept adult DBT or else I’d have no support whatsoever
I was diagnosed with Tourette's Syndrome at the age of 14 in the mid 90s.For two years until i reached 16 and left full time education i would see a psychologist once a week for support, guidance and medication. When i turned 16 and left full time education this all stopped and no further support was offered and i was not given any information as to whether there was any other support available. The medication i was prescribed which seemed to work pretty well in suppressing my tics was not reviewed in 20 years until i myself at the age of 36 decided to research Consultants who specialised in Tourette's which led me to self refer to in my opinion the leading Consultant in this field DR Jeremy Stern. After waiting 6 months for my appointment i drove the two hour journey to meet with him. I explained that i had not been reviewed for 20 years and i wanted to know after that period of time would it be possible to withdraw the medication slowly that i was given at the age of 15 which is an antipsychotic drug called Pimozide as this drug was stopping me from taking other medication due to the nature of certain reactions Pimozide can cause with other treatments i needed at that time. DR Stern agreed that i could safely withdraw from this Pimozide with a high chance that after 20 years i would have a good deal of control over my Tourette's without needing to be medicated, but there was always a risk that it would come back as full blown tics.
I was with CAMHS but I was never offered to transition to AHMS
British people are the most ignorant nation of people on this planet
Overwhelmed NHS services meant I was no longer able to get support once I turned 18
Difficulties as poor communication with adult mental mental services. I was constantly in contact with them to arrange appointment and received no follow ups. They then discharged me and I haven’t bothered since. Just continued struggling instead
After my first assessment with a AHMS worker and my old CAMHS worker i was told i essentially didnt need help/ they couldn't offer me any when i felt at the time i really did. i got into AHMS eventually but this made me feel like going to each appointment was just me wasting the mental health nurses time which couldve been spent with someone else.
I didn't have a good relationship with my psych from CAHMS
Lack of communication between CAMHS and AMHS. Neither knew which one I was meant to be under the care of, so for a while it was both, and then suddenly it was none. I went back into AMHS after being re-referred by GP, but only received a short therapy programme.
Lack of information. I didn't feel ready. Once moved, a massive lack of support and had a bad experience with the first practitioner I saw in AMHS
My counsellor went on long term leave, and because of this I had no one to speak to about my transition, and was therefore unable to.
It felt utterly useless as they hardly helped
Was deemed "not severe enough" to transfer to adult mental health services by GP. Eventually referred to adult mental health services after suicide attempt and much worsened mental health due to lack of support.

I didn't want too it wasn't anyone else's fault
i was relatively informed but needed to google for more information. AMHS do not hold as much weight as CAMHS
I was never properly notified about my transition - no one explained what it meant
They basically refused to keep helping me when they realised I was turning 18 soon
I was not given notice that i would have to leave camhs
not enough time before i was told I had to transition
I was not informed about a transitional from CAMHS to AMHS
I had not heard anything good about camhs which is why I went private
I was at CAMHS at such a young age that a lot of these indices can feel unapplicable to me, it wasn't until i got older when i noticed that i needed re-assesing.
i transitioned straight into the adult services so did not experience child services, but i felt i was treated more like an adult which helped my experience more
Before i was officially told about the transition i already suspected it would happen so felt more mentally prepped.
It was quite a stressful situation that took a long time to fully go through with a lot of uncertainty at times.
Did not transition to at least 10 years later
The above is incorrect because it wouldn't let me say i didnt transition
Had to seek private therapy due to transition falling through
As i was almost 18 during my diagnosis i didnt really experience a transition period. i was treated and diagnosed at home, then had to enrol at the university health service once i left home and give them details of my treatment.
A lot of the professionals didn't seem like they totally had a plan for me.
Not much support available, they didnt have much time for me
I chose private healthcare due to hearing such negative experiences of cahms from people I knew
I was private, there was not a lot of help offered as they knew my parents were willing to pay
I feel like the sessions are too short and they expect people to be recovered after the sessions even if they arent
i was in crisis when i reached out to mental health services once again. despite not being able to see my old therapist, i was put in touch with a new one very quickly
CAMHS diagnosed me right at the end but through most of my time with them they kept saying I was lying or exaggerating.
The poor handling, the lack of communication between AMHS and CAMHS made everything much more difficult
Eating disorder department of CAMHS is shockingly poor - focus on weight and nothing else and regularly told me I wasn’t thin enough for further help
I wasn’t informed of my transition until very last minute and was told I would be able to transition and be put on the list for art therapy. On the last session of my assessment I was then told I wouldn’t be getting art therapy and would get talking therapy. There was no asking me if I was comfortable with that huge change I was just told that was what was happening and I had no control
Allowing to transition and maybe seeing two clinicians for a while to help transition
I had no support during my transition process
My camhs care Co ordinator continued to see me through my transition period even though he had changed job roles in cahms
i was told in november 2020 i would no longer be under camhs after april 2021 and to seek other alternatives as i did not qualify for a referal to amhs
My therapist told me I was to transition in our last session. I was given no warning prior to this
I didn't really get to transition as I had limited interactions with CAMHS already so I have a very vague experience with the mental health services.
Unaware of what transitioning was or what AMHS offered before and during transitioning.
my camhs clinician was very helpful with the transition
I haven't done it yet I'm still with shitty camhs
CAMHS misdiagnosed me and refused to listen to me when I said I didn't have autism, I just had social anxiety. This lead to years of not getting proper treatment for BPD which was the actual condition I suffer from. They did so much more harm than good and I wish I'd never seen them in the first place so I could've gotten the proper treatment I needed.
Amhs won’t take me on on the basis i am currently not in an episode i have no way of getting my medication that i know of i’ve only recently turned 18 and once i run out of my medication i don’t know where or how to get it and when i’ve come off before it spirals me into an episode which are very destructive and i just feel i’ve been left and i don’t know what i’m supposed to do
I think ive covered everything, it was a difficult and disappointing experience that caused significant harm to my mental state
It's difficult for me to answer questions about my CAMHS team in checkboxes, as I had four clinicians throughout my time in CAMHS and felt differently supported by each of them. My psychologist and nurse that I saw for the last 5-6 months of my time in CAMHS were flexible, reliable and helped me feel listened to and not judged, but before that I had experiences with a psychiatrist and a therapist that were mostly negative
Its easy to get lost in the system between transitioning. Very often you will be told that amhs wont treat you or prioritise you unless you are actively trying to kill yourself. Camhs actually cares about everyone who reaches out for help,they treat patients regardless of if theyre suicidal, whereas amhs are reluctant to treat non suicidal patients
i knew i wouldn’t be at camhs for much longer because i’m turning 18 soon but no information about the transition or amhs was given
The process was meant to have happened but because I disliked the cahms handler so much it did not, at 13 I went to Central youth which was an NHS branch of cahms kinda, however I was not super happy there either
We only began the transition because one day I said “I turn 18 in December (a few months away), what’s happening with adult services?” And my therapist was like “oh! Yeah! I’d forgotten. I guess we better think about that”
Was never offered but brought up in conversations a lot which I found confusing
Delete this survey and rectify the error in your ethnic group options
Not informed of any services or what to do for help during transition
in the course of 2/3 years I'd seen about 10 different nurses, some for different types of therapies, some as a way of getting reassessed and put through to someone else-
There was a big lack of communication between services, resulting in me being seen by them both, and then suddenly by neither. The sudden lack of support and help was not good for me. I was then re-referred by my GP to AMHS, as she was concerned. I only received a short therapy programme, about things I already knew, and no additional support.
I felt like I was being abandoned without knowing what was next (never met my new practioner) before
I wasn’t able to transition, I was never informed or contacted by CAMHS to arrange this.
It was pretty forced as CAHMS failed in providing me services, resulting in me ending up being too old for the program

Canr think of anything, don't clearly remember that time in my life
It was strange meeting my AMHS clinician for the first time upon my first arrival and trying to build up trust in her
I was discharged before I became an adult due to the limited sessions i was offered and long waiting lists.
Different treatment plans from different clinicians
I feel like the initial plan that was made wasn't followed directly but it didn't impact me too much because i was just happy to be seen by someone and not slip through the net
There was no transistioned process i got thrust into it
i saw a mental health nurse at my doctors (alongside my GP) who helped me into the AMHS
did not transition - was never in CAMHS just AMHS
when starting university, i had to see my GP regularly in the first term.
Young people aren’t told where they’ll be moving if they need an adult inpatient bed and the uncertainty is horrible. I also hate that they have to move exactly on their 18th birthday due to rules about ages on cahms/adult wards and it makes the whole day so sad: which seems so unnecessary for the sake of policy
i have heard terrible reactions from friends
CAMHS was fairly useless as was my GP, I didn't get any real help until I was 18.
My GP actually recomendad my current private psychiatrist because of how little communication I received from AMHS about my transition. I felt ignored, felt like the CAMHS clinicians thought I was no longer their problem but I also wasn't yet in proper contact with AMHS
During the transition process, there was no flexibility whatsoever. I was told if I didn’t attend my assessments or attend my first session with the AMHS psychiatrist I would be removed from the list for adult services and would not receive further support
My transition dud not happen i was duscharged from camhs and expected to find my own way into amhs
My AHMS team did not follow the advised care plan given to them by my cahms team, with regards to the type of support I required
My transition process was so long after CAMHS discharged me I gave up entirely. It took several months before I got a referral
cahms have done everything they can my psychiatrist and key worker have written in total 3 letters and referrals to amhs which they have all rejected and my psychiatrist has been quite concerned to the fact they won’t take me on due to being okay now however i have a history of hallucinations suicide attempts extreme manic behaviour and myself and i think cahms couldn’t understand what there grounds were as with bipolar you have periods of time when you don’t experience symptoms especially on medication but when great stressors happen regardless of medication i get very ill very quickly
I felt very isolated and unsupported during transition
My cahms handler i think made my mental health dip in the way they 'tried to help'
I was too meek to stand up for myself if ever I disagreed with how things were going, so I ended up suffering in silence a lot
I had no transition and were given no information of any other services or help available to me after leaving school.
I was not clearly told what was going to happen. CAMHS tried to help as much as they could, but AMHS didn’t seem willing to communicate. I had no idea what was going to happen. I had appointments with both for a while, but due to a lack of communication I don’t think they realised. When they did realise, I was suddenly discharged from both services back to my GP.
I feel like the transition made my mental health worse due to lack of support and no say in the fact I was moving
It was quick to do but was uncomfortable

no information about temporary care for both uni and home
i really enjoyed the sense of freedom given by not having my parent there since ironically there were also a source of mental stress that i could never really confess at the time
It was better when i was in adult services not children
i feel now i am an adult i have more of a say in my treatment.
No collaboration from NHS care practitioners
It felt like they didn't know or have time to get to know me, including information about my diagnosis and medication, I'd end up having to repeat myself. Communication between the private psychiatrist (I only started seeing because the transition was so long and ambiguous) complicated things further. Added considerably to the impact of my mental illness on my education at the time
I entered AMHS a few years after leaving CAMHS
Negative : they still kept my parents involved even though i was an adult and had specifically said i didn’t want that which had and still has a huge negative impact on me because it makes my situation worse
There were key events in my history that AHMS were unclear about though it was all in my file that they received
i wasnt given the option despite asking and disclosing the fact i thought i need continuing support
Despite being under AMHS since March, I have only had two visits with my clinician
the adult services i had were so unhelpful and impersonal. i had generalised cbt sessions in a group where very few applied to my situation and the clinicians didn't even know my name; it was a huge adjustment from my time at camhs
amhs have left me fearful that if i have another episode i’ll have no chance in completing my a levels and no chance of going to uni and in my living situation if i don’t go to university i will have no where to live and i’m also fearful i have zero support now and no one who could recognise warnings signs because i don’t recognise them i don’t have any friends teachers don’t understand them and i just feel abandoned
When talking about going to adult services I heavily relied on my mother but we both agreed it was in my best interest to not continue
My initial experiences of the first 6-9 months or so in AMHS were utterly horrific. My therapist would make me cry pretty much every session, it was dire. Luckily she left and I was allocated someone who was less abrasive! On another note, I loved the lack of parental involvement. I’d tried hard throughout CAMHS to exclude my mum, but that was difficult at times due to confidentiality etc, so having the freedom to do so in AMHS was a breath of fresh air
British imperialistic mindsets are gross
Adult service never re assessed me they only stick to the diagnosis I was given as a child
There was a BIG lack in communication between services. My first appointment with AMHS, I got sent so I turned up, and was asked why I was there. As if I should know! The psychologist had no clue why I was there, and neither did I. CAMHS said that was not the plan at all, and they didn’t know why I was having appointments with AMHS because they hadn’t been informed and had wanted to do a transition meeting. I was then abruptly discharged from both services back to my GP.
I wasn't with CAHMS long enough and I am not close to my family