Pushed Over The Edge

[nailit]

https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/charlene-sargeant-cheadle-murder-rocky-2079589

I knew both the girl and her mother. She used to play with my son when they were kids. Her mother had numerous mental health issues and I know that her daughter's upbringing was awful (Im in no way blaming her mother, she was ill) but when this story hit my local paper a while back both my son and myself said ''not surprised''.
Its a tragic case for all concerned, both daughter and mother, but why as a society does it ever get to this? Where are social services when needed?
I can fully understand this girl been pushed over the edge by a seriously mentally ill mother. I can also understand the struggles that her mother endured by her illnesses.
I cant understand why things like this esculate to the point that they have.

[nailit]

//Social services are damned when they do and when they don’t!//
Not just social services, where were the mental health 'professionals' over the years? This totally could have been prevented with some support from the system for both mother and daughter.

[SparklyKid]

Very sad case and, as usual, it is always someone else's fault.

[bednobs]

The problem is that people don't welcome intervention. You are a mentally ill parent with a child the same age. Given how you feel about authority can u honestly say YOU would have engaged?

[nailit]

Bednobs, Im not mentally ill, Ive suffered with depression which is slightly different. This girls mother was schizophrenic, THATS mentally ill. And to answer your question, yes, I would have welcomed any support offered to me.

[nailit]

//Given how you feel about authority//
Yes, I do have issues with certain 'authorities'. But I wasn't talking about authorities, I was talking about support.

[bednobs]

You've been sectioned against your will twice and lately begged to be admitted to a mental hospital to prevent you killing yourself. Didn't you also threaten your mum with a knife? Not that it's a competition but what I'm saying is that it might be difficult for you to get some perspective as it's close to home

[bednobs]

There are lots of people who wouldn't see ss as support in the way you seem to

[nailit]

//You've been sectioned against your will twice and lately begged to be admitted to a mental hospital to prevent you killing yourself//
That's the irony of it all. Ive been sectioned in the past when all I needed was a bit of support and then last year when I was suffering from suicidal thoughts I had to BEG to be admitted to hospital for some treatment before I did myself in.
//Didn't you also threaten your mum with a knife? //
Where the hell did you get THAT from. I would never threaten my mother.

[bednobs]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Law/Criminal/Question1149737.html sorry mate I remembered wrong