Cork mental health advocate: Camhs issues shows we are stuck in same cycle as a decade ago

Emma O'Sullivan: 'I feel like it's absolutely detrimental to the future of kids in Ireland'
Emma O'Sullivan, OCD sufferer at her house in Ballinlough , Cork . Picture; Eddie O'Hare

Emma O'Sullivan, OCD sufferer at her house in Ballinlough , Cork . Picture; Eddie O'Hare

A Cork mental health advocate who attended child mental health services 10 years ago has urged that the problems with the system are not ignored again.

Emma O'Sullivan said that problems highlighted by the recent Mental Health Commission report into child and adolescent mental health services are familiar, and seem "stuck in the same cycle".

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