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One part of the story, as I have indicated, is children receiving poor therapy; the other part is children receiving no therapy—or no therapy that is appropriate. Blooming Change has told me that it has members who have been child patients in mental health in-patient units who had no access to therapy of any kind. One said: “In the wards I’ve been on, they just drugged us and restrained us … we left with even more trauma and no help in place, so then we would end up back in hospital and the cycle would repeat. So much pain could have been prevented had the wards had better things in place”. Another put it even more succinctly: “Without therapy, mental health unit become prisons”.