Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Mental health support in schools: 'Families don’t have to spend years on waiting lists'

Mental health support in schools: 'Families don’t have to spend years on waiting lists'

When Grace Hartill was 11, she began to show the first signs of anxiety. Within a few years, the Barnsley schoolgirl had become withdrawn and had stopped wanting to see her friends.

“It was awful,” she says. “I didn’t want to leave my bedroom because I felt like if I did, something would happen to me or somebody I loved. Home was where I felt safest, so I just isolated myself. I barely went to school.” The Guardian

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