Monday, January 4, 2016

Sally Burke burst into 14-year-old Maisie's bedroom after being alerted to the ominous post by a friend in the middle of the night

Sally Burke burst into 14-year-old Maisie's bedroom after being alerted to the ominous post by a friend in the middle of the night


SWNS Sally Burke from Hull, East Yorkshire, tells how her daughter Maisie attempted to kill herself
Panic: Sally Burke was alerted to a troubling Facebook status from daughter Maisie
A mum rushed to frantically save the life of her suicidal teenage daughter after she posted a Facebook status saying "This is the end".
Sally Burke was alerted to the ominous post on 14-year-old Maisie's account by a friend in the middle of the night.
Sally burst into the teenager's bedroom and found her attempting suicide over the Christmas period.
Maisie has tried to take her life a number of times and Ms Burke is campaigning for changes to mental health services in their hometown of Hull, Humberside.
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The troubled teen has previously been forced to stay in mental health units more than 60 miles from home due to a lack of services in the area and there is no out-of-hours support service for her family to rely on.
She said: "I feel like we're trudging through water. I'm fighting and fighting and fighting but there has been no support to help us go forward.

SWNS Sally Burke from Hull, East Yorkshire, tells how her daughter Maisie attempted to kill herself
Fight: Sally is campaigning for better mental health services to help her and her daughter
"It's just about surviving by the day."
After Maisie's attempt on her life, her mum had to call 999 for help because the 24-hour crisis support from children's mental health services, CAMHS, does not launch until later this month.
Maisie was diagnosed with autism in April 2014 and is one of a number of children sent to units all over the country for treatment following the closure of the West End unit in Hessle, near Hull, in 2013.
The youngster spent Christmas at home with her family for the first time in three years following her discharge from an inpatient unit in October.
However, Ms Burke says she sees a CAMHS support worker just once a week and there has been no attempt to help Maisie overcome her difficulties.
Since being discharged, Maisie has run away and made several attempts to take her own life, forcing her mother to rely on police to come to her rescue because of the lack of out-of-hours support.
Despite being identified as someone who required trauma support six months ago by CAMHS, Ms Burke has had to give up her job as a teacher to care for Maisie as the support has yet to be put in place.
Instead, the 14-year-old has been sectioned under the mental health act at the adult mental health unit in Hull.
Ms Burke said: "The police have been wonderful but it's not their job.
"There are 50 people involved in our case but we have still not moved forward."

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