Evergreen House

Incompetent cant do job properly made me worse than I am
Nov 4th, 2022

aims seem to be to waste time and make people worse, if you are able to please dont hesitate getting private help, camhs does not care
Jul 7th, 2022

Quiet .client focused. calm attentive proffessional Trusting and sincer
Feb 24th, 2018

I suffer from an eating disorder and this is my story of treatment. Please do not take your child here and find somewhere else. I received family therapy, which we were originally told for months was family based therapy (its very different). This wasnt helping me at all, I was very ill and very unhappy. They taught me no coping strategies and never helped me change my mindset or deal with thoughts. Overall it was a waste of time, but this was why it was so awful. I was desperate for some help and Id go into these sessions hoping theyd help me (as they should at a bare minimum) and Id come out feeling like I was never going to recover as they werent helping me. I dreaded these appointments, not because they were challenging or uncomfortable, but because they crushed every piece of hope I had of getting better or chance of relief I had every single time. I was determined to recover and get the help I deserve and need. I started asking for a one on one councillor, and surprising as part of the eating disorder recovery plan you dont get one. So after weeks or months of asking, I finally got an appointment with one. So I went in to my first session with her, I was so scared of opening up and telling someone about my problems but I knew I had to do this to get better. So I went in and did just that. I remember going into the room and it has white walls, selling and floor. It was cold and having an eating disorder I felt this even more. In the room there were two chairs, a dolls house and a box of toys. The environment just felt awful. I started talking with her and I told her about how I had felt depressed for a long time. Her response was that she thought my depression was down to tiredness. This felt awful, anyone could clearly see it wasnt tiredness, my life at this point was purely the ED and I wasnt any getting better. On my next session with her I ended up getting extremely distressed and the lady brought my mum in. She suggest to my mum that she took me into town and treated me to a hot chocolate to calm me down. Understandably, my mum was not happy to see this lady had not helped me at all, put me in a distressed state and then told me to eat to calm me down. It doesnt take a genius to know a person suffering from my ED will not see a hot chocolate as a treat and it will not calm them down in the slightest. And that was the last I ever saw of her as my Mum saw it was doing more harm than good. After a while my parents told me theyd found out that she wasnt an eating disorder specialist, but a social worker. Last September the communication broke down between my family and my family therapists. September 26th was the last time I ever had treatment from CAMHS before the effectively dropped me from treatment. I was not recovered and they even told me I wasnt recovered. But still they saw it fit to drop me from treatment without any reasoning why and left me without any therapy. I havent heard from them since. Fortunately my family got me a private therapist and so I could carry on with that. If my family didnt have this for me, Id hate to think what would happen
Nov 17th, 2020