Parents' fight for mental health services for their children 'wears you down and burns you out'

Speakers warned children and teens could be 'passed from one service to another' instead of getting help.

The fight for services "wears you down and burns you out", a mother with lobby group Families for Reform of Camhs has told TDs and senators, who heard parents of children with mental illnesses face huge distress.

She said real help often came from individual staff going “out of their way” rather than from the system itself.