Two Northern Irish women have called for increased investment into mental health services and described the impact that long delays and waiting lists have had on them
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When Amber was 16 she was diagnosed with a brain tumour which not only hurt her physical health but her mental health too, as she has had to go through a number of surgeries and try and recover from the trauma of her injury. "I have experienced the same difficulties with the mental health services with delays for counselling and treatment and am still waiting on support that I was promised when I was 13.
Bobbie, 26, has also been involved with mental health services since she was a child due to her ADHD. She says that while she had problems with this when she was younger, it was not until her late teens and early twenties where she began to have serious difficulties with her mental health. "Following this my mental health just got worse and worse and I ended up being admitted to PICU and a number of mental health wards. The PICU was faultless, but on the wards it felt like a different planet and they were just not the right place to get help, I felt worse after leaving it due to everything that was going on.
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