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Need A Private Childrens Mental Health Doctor Urgent - Please Help

Does any body know of any descent mental health assessors doctors for children that are in or near the South Yorkshire are I live in Barnsley, UK as I have spent the last 2 years getting my 7 year old soon assessed for ADHD and/or ASD but because he has trates of both I was given a none diagnoses and no help or support from the NHS/UK. Desperate need help.
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Hi Marie I haven't been back to the doctors about my son as they only refer me back to the same people. I have e-mailed the National Autistic Society and I am awaiting their reply if I dont get an reply soon I will be phoning them.
Hi Heather my son is already on the waiting list (which for that school is extremely long as there are a lot of kids with mental health problems at this school and she has been off sick herself) to see the school psych as she needs to asses him to decide if he needs 1 to 1 help. I will be chatting to the pastoral care lady at the school to see if she can help me. I have been recommended someone in Sheffield and have contacted her last night again I am waiting to see if she is willing to take my case on. I will let you how things go.
The waiting is agony. But be strong and don't give up. Suddenly everything will happen at once. Keep going!
Thanks for the warning, I hope I don't encounter these problems. I have already put in a complaint to PALS regarding NHS telling them I have been forced to go private and that if a private psych does find something wrong with our son I will be taking legal action and going to the media. This is not the 1st time the NHS has let me down especially regarding our son I had to threaten them then that I would go private, PALS and go the media if things was not sorted out the sorted that little problem really quickly but this was the last straw so I went to PALs. I know what you mean about referrals and files taking walks (often when NHS want to hide mistakes they have made conveniently) it happened to a friend of mine after her 3 month old son started having fits after an his inoculations, they knew they was in trouble so his records and files "mysteriously"went missing. That baby is now 16 with severe brain damage, has a mental age of a 1 year old and could die at any moment but the family could not take legal action as the proof was in his medical records that apparently grew legs and went missing as soon as he started fitting. I have been and will be calling the relevant secretaries continuously, I'll be polite but I will be blunt if you know what you mean. Did the private specialist find out what was wrong with your child, if you don't mind me asking?