Where can i read stories of young people's experiences of mental health services?

Is there anywhere where i can read about the experiences of young people who have been involved with the mental health services?



Specifically i am looking for the experiences of 17 year old males involved with CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services), but experiances outside of this criteria will be helpful too.



I am looking to put their feedback into part of a presentation on the problems young people with mental health problems face.Where can i read stories of young people's experiences of mental health services?Have you tried Youngminds.org.uk



It might have something - there are experiences of children - not sure how old.Where can i read stories of young people's experiences of mental health services?I've been having these suicidal thoughts?

I've been having suicidal thoughts all the time. I always feel as if there's no point in living. The more I try to think about reasons to live and purposes in life and how the rest of my life is probably going to go, the more I feel like I shouldnt bother going through with it.

Basically, throughout everyones life, they work to keep themselves alive. I mean, no matter how successful you are, unless you are insanely rich, you can be like the best doctor ever and still need to go to work everyday, or else at one point you'll run out of money. Only people like JKR can just stop working and not run out of money.

Anyway, I'm only in highschool, but I have all these negative thoughts on life and quite honestly I dont see a reason to live.

I'm just going to end up working every day anyway, and then when I'm finally in retirement age I'll be old and weak and my brain wouldnt work right. That's the sad truth, too, the only reason they LET you retire is because you're too old and weak to work, ****, this world is so corrupted.

But basically, my point is that the only thing thats keeping me from killing myself is fear.

I mean, I dont believe in an afterlife, and I'm sure the process of killing yourself is undoubtedly painful no matter how you do it.

If I believed in an afterlife, it would be a lot easier to do this, but seeing as I dont.. It's just too scary.



Well, anyway, how do I stop myself from thinking all these things and thinking that its pointless to live?



I tried thinking of the meaning of life as "other people" and finding someone, but blah, even when you do you just spend your life working for that person. One could argue that spending your life working for the person you love and making their life perfect is a good thing, and I wouldn't argue against it, but it still seems pointless to me.

We die in the end, so why not end it now?