I need to share my story as I feel nobody is listening. My boy is a grown man he is 22, He is and will always be my boy. He is stuck as a boy, my beautiful clever talented charming son started changing at age 17, and now we have a son who spends most of the time writing answers for imaginary questions in imaginary scenarios answers in metaphors.
He is currently in hospital on a section 2. The doctors and nursing staff in their words "can find nothing wrong with him" as far as they are concerned he is just a thug, but they refuse to listen when we try to tell them he wasn’t always athug. The way he was brought up wasn’t thuggish. Our three other children aren’t thugs. His thuggish behaviour is as a result of his illness, which we have yet to have any kind of diagnosis although psychosis and schizophrenia have both been mentioned. My son’s anger and rage is all directed at his father which is very sad as my husband isn’t a well man himself. He is suffering from a heart condition.
I feel as though he is rotting in hospital getting no help from the people we entrusted with his care and what makes this all the sadder is that my son has told the staff that we are to be told nothing about his care or treatment. We feel totally lost and very sad. I am hoping somewhere inside the violent thug, my lovely son is waiting to break free. That makes me a sad old woman.
The mental health system is letting not only my son down but also his entire family. We have a large family and our son was the first child, first grandchild and first great-granchild; all of this family adore him. None of us are in a position to find out what is happening to him. I pray everyday and I’m told a mother’s prayers are strong but nobody seems to be listening.
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