I’m going through a miserable time with the january 4th suicide of a 16yr old i took care of at arms length since she was 3 when her mom left her with her dad. Her grandfather, someone I’ve had a close relationship for 25 years had custody of her for the past 3 years. Arms length means she did not live with us but I was involved in many aspects of her life and she came here often. As we clean her room we are discovering that the place we had set up for her to go to counselling knew about her preoccupation with death and that one of her methods was to jump off a balcony. He lived on the 9th floor of an apartment building. The report is from a virtual assessment with a psychiatrist dated sept 23 of this year. The centre where he paid $165 per appointment never told him of the findings. There was no follow up for the medication she was given. She did not take any more than 6 of the pills since filling it Nov 11.
We want to sue the family doctor, the psychiatrist and the person she was have therapy with For neglecting to inform of the risk.
Anyone reading this think it is wise to do this? Too many rights are given to youth so that the lines of respecting privacy and duty of care get blurred.
Her sister is mentioned in the report as having participated with her in conversations from an early age while living with their violent father, that her sibling would be better off dead. In their young minds things would be better if she died and the other lived. She is showing little shock regarding her siblings death and has said she expected it.
I need help sorting my head out on this. Stuck in confusion and feeling like it must of been horrible to tell the psychiatrist all this and not have anyone safeguard you and secondly being given this report in writing.
This young lady had been here every day in the summer and we engaged happily in many adventures. again in November we did things together. Never in a million years did I see this coming.
The only people who knew were the psychiatrist, her sibling and highly likely her therapist. I feel like they let her down.
We want to sue the family doctor, the psychiatrist and the person she was have therapy with For neglecting to inform of the risk.
Anyone reading this think it is wise to do this? Too many rights are given to youth so that the lines of respecting privacy and duty of care get blurred.
Her sister is mentioned in the report as having participated with her in conversations from an early age while living with their violent father, that her sibling would be better off dead. In their young minds things would be better if she died and the other lived. She is showing little shock regarding her siblings death and has said she expected it.
I need help sorting my head out on this. Stuck in confusion and feeling like it must of been horrible to tell the psychiatrist all this and not have anyone safeguard you and secondly being given this report in writing.
This young lady had been here every day in the summer and we engaged happily in many adventures. again in November we did things together. Never in a million years did I see this coming.
The only people who knew were the psychiatrist, her sibling and highly likely her therapist. I feel like they let her down.
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