Accurate information about mental health and violence, particularly homicides, is not easy to find.
Many mental health professionals don’t like talking about the subject, and if they do, they consistently underestimate the true scale of the problem.
What information there is, is often partial, inaccurate or incorrect.
This section examines the problem of mental health homicides and violence using official reports, sources and evidence.
It looks at:
The true Numbers of mental health homicides in Britain each year.
Mental Health and Violence – Common myths and the realities behind them.
Scientific Evidence – 32 international scientific studies documenting the proven association between mental illness and violence.
Why does it keep happening? – Some key problems that need to be addressed.
There have been a number of recent prevent future death reports from coroners which highlight the poor state of mental health care and budget cuts. Ultimately this will be related to your website.
I am attending a bereavement course where Mr Hendy spoke. Many people said bereavement service grief support was being accessed for people, particularly teenagers who needed support from CAMHS but they cannot access support.
As a family, my son required emergency mental health care March 2023, and the response came in January 2024 whereby he has been assigned a Case Worker. The system is becoming increasingly broken. We have required either a child social worker or adult social worker several times in the last 5 years, and most of the time we are bounced between them both, either party citing that we don’t quite meet the criteria but saying it’s a job for the other party. During Covid19 the system was initially broken from March 2019 until May 2019 as we required help then and we got passed around until May when they acted upon the reports they had received earlier in the year. Until then it was the Headmistress from the school who came and personally ensured we had food.