"Children needing help"

I have a teenager, that's falling through the cracks everywhere, it's so bad it's crazy.

I will go with this year's fun and games. We started the year trying to get appointment for paediatrics, to be told they won't give my teen a referral to the hospital because by the time it gets through they will be too old... so got one for Dockatela, but had to wait months for my teen to be old enough.

After waiting months to be told they can't help my teen, they need to see paediatrics. Back to local doctors, but they are too old for paediatrics now, after more time more running around to get an appointment with paediatrics at Geraldton hospital. We thought thank got some help, we first appointment I was kicked out five mins in so they could talk to my teen alone, they doesn't do well with opening up to strangers, out come nothing.

Second visit with information sent in from private OT and physiological, for pediatric doctor to say that the information provided is not good and disregard... So out come go home and try to get into a normal sleep pattern... Come back in a month, wells it's now been over two and still no follow up nothing. Teen still struggling with everyday stuff. Struggling to leave the house, still no friends. This kid has been through so many doctors, including mental health over the years and we are still chasing our tails.

In our experience, anything medical in Geraldton takes years to get no where... Months for any appointments from standard doctors even longer for anything else, and help for mental health is worse than nothing, it just sends us backwards every time.