Girl (9) with intellectual disability brought to A&E due to services gap

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Mother felt she had no choice after her child on autism spectrum had ‘huge meltdown’

Her daughter Hazel , who has autism and engages in self-harming behaviour like banging her head, “had a huge meltdown” in a restaurant in“I was on my own. I had a bit of a cry. My beautiful little girl... I couldn’t manage her.”

The married mother of two said she always tried to “keep the brighter side out” but she hit a wall every six months or so, and had a path worn to the door of her GP in Coachford.Nuala Murray from Aghabullogue, Co Cork with her daughter Hazel. The dental nurse has reduced her workdays and at one point had to take six weeks leave as she was so burned out.“Hazel, like my other [teenage] daughter, is my life. They are your everything. It is hard on her.”

 

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