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Adolescent Mental Health Inpatient Units

Fuchsia

Hi.  I wondered if anyone has any experience of any of these.  My daughter (17) was in one for several months last year and, although she made progress and was not unhappy there, they were very ignorant regarding ASDs.  It now looks as if she may need to be admitted again and I am wondering if there are any which are particularly good with people on the spectrum.

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  • Reading this I recalled I had read about catatonia and autism, but am struggling to find anything written about it in the books I kept.

    It seems to be a development of autism where motor-control becomes harder and the initiation of movement is somehow blocked. So those affected appear to become immobilised and tend to do very little. Where in fact it may be the initialisation of a movement that makes them do such things less.

    One authority on this is Lorna Wing bjp.rcpsych.org/.../357.full 

    "Catatonia in Autistic Spectrum Disorders" Wing L & Shah, A (2000) The British Journal of Psychiatry Vol 175 issue 4, pp357-362. It is manifest by an absence of speech and movement and fixed postures.

    I've read elsewhere that sufferers stop eating and drinking. It can arise in old age or as early as teens, and is dangerous if not treated because, I guess, they deteriorate rapidly thriough not eating and drinking.

    But there is also a paper by Lorna Wing on this downloadable from the NAS website, just cannot find it at the moment.

    Of course with a medical profession that doesn't understand autism, the last thing they'd look for is an autism related cause.

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  • Reading this I recalled I had read about catatonia and autism, but am struggling to find anything written about it in the books I kept.

    It seems to be a development of autism where motor-control becomes harder and the initiation of movement is somehow blocked. So those affected appear to become immobilised and tend to do very little. Where in fact it may be the initialisation of a movement that makes them do such things less.

    One authority on this is Lorna Wing bjp.rcpsych.org/.../357.full 

    "Catatonia in Autistic Spectrum Disorders" Wing L & Shah, A (2000) The British Journal of Psychiatry Vol 175 issue 4, pp357-362. It is manifest by an absence of speech and movement and fixed postures.

    I've read elsewhere that sufferers stop eating and drinking. It can arise in old age or as early as teens, and is dangerous if not treated because, I guess, they deteriorate rapidly thriough not eating and drinking.

    But there is also a paper by Lorna Wing on this downloadable from the NAS website, just cannot find it at the moment.

    Of course with a medical profession that doesn't understand autism, the last thing they'd look for is an autism related cause.

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