Just found this though:

Extended Hours/Acute Care Team

Euroa Centre
Prince of Wales Hospital
Barker Street
Randwick NSW 2031
Phone: 02 9366 8611

The Extended Hours/Acute Care Team is the emergency service for the Eastern Suburbs MHS and is available for mental health emergencies 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The team supports and monitors people in times of crisis and offers emergency mental health assessment in the home and in the Emergency Department in the acute phase of their illness. Education and support for families and/or their carers who are affected by people in crisis is also offered.

Don't hesitate to call the Extended Hours/Acute Care Team if:

You feel very emotionally distressed
If you are too unwell to come to the hospital and need someone to visit you at home
If you feel you can’t cope with your symptoms or feelings.

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Mobile Community Treatment Team

Hours: 8:30am - 5pm
The Maroubra Centre
130 Garden Street
Maroubra NSW 2035
Phone: 02 9366 8711

The Mobile Community Treatment Team supports and monitors people in times of crisis and provides emergency mental health assessments in the home and in the Emergency Department in the acute stage of their illness. Mental health education is also offered to the consumer’s family and/or carers. Staff will also help consumers with their medication in their homes if they are unable to manage themselves.

You're right. ACAT is the aged care team here, too. I was thinking of the programme my son was referred to last year. It's an acronym but for the life of me I can't remember what it was. Maybe I need the memory clinic.

Penny, here's a couple of links. I'm not familiar with Sydney, so take a look at the ones that are relevant to your area.
http://www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/__dat...thBrochure.pdf
http://www.sesiahs.health.nsw.gov.au...alth%20Service I think this one is the one you need.

Good luck with her. 15 is a hard time for both your daughter and you.

Thanks so much for the links and advice, very very kind of you to look stuff up. We've just had an incident - I caught her trying to sneak a razor blade into her bedroom. ended up with me wrestling her to the kitchen floor to get it out of her hand then us both crying. All witnessed by 12 year old daughter. I really don't think she's likely to act on her suicidal thoughts - not today anyway. Asked her what we could do to 'take away' self harming urge, walk/run/dance etc so now they're doing some wii activity stuff - all the self harm forums talk about doing something to release the pressure.
So maybe I will let her take day off school and go for a walk by the beach or something.

We are undergoing something very similar to you right now so I just wanted to offer my sympathies to you and thank all the other posters for excellent advice.

Get on to the phone and ring the number in my post. Even if it's just you talking to them, that's what they're there for.

I feel for what you're going through, it's truly awful. That dull look that you described is very distressing but a sign that this is something that right now you need additional help with. I'm not sure what CAMHS is like in NSW but I see they have 24 hour emergency contacts at the bottom of the page here. I wouldn't make her go to school, I'd be getting her in front of people who can help her. As mentioned by others - get her off FB - in fact if you can, ban computer use altogether for now. And reassure her that you love her and that you're going to help her to overcome this.

So she hasn't gone to school. Didn't sleep well again.
I have emailed her Dr and will call in a minute to get her in today to see her or someone else.
Last night ended OK, she played the wii with sister, we had a group hug and told her how much we loved her. She had a bath and was reading in bed. Even ended up laughing about the 'incident' as I hurt my bad knee fighting with her. Husband came home from work at 10pm so missed it all as usual.

I wanted to get her off the computer/facebook at night but the Dr told me it's important for her to speak with her friends as it takes her mind off things. We do take computer away for bedtime though.
I did ring the hospital but they told me to call North shore hospital but no reply or answerphone there!
It's awful how many of us have been through/going through this but really does help me to know there are others out there. My friends who have kids the same age seem to have normal lives and I can't help but blame myself for this happening to my daughter.
Anyway will get her to see someone today and maybe have a walk, clean her room, do some positive things.
Thanks all x

I can probably guarantee you that a fair number of them are going through exactly the same shit but just don't have the strength to discuss it openly. It's only when you do open up and admit that some things are not right, that they will begin to go in the right direction.

Totally agree boss..... The number of people I know with perfict kids is totally disproportiinal to the actual number of perfict kids out there... Either they are Liars, in denial.... Or about to get the shock of a lifetime....

Or very very very lucky.....

I often wonder how those whose kids never put a foot out of line will react/cope/manage when they eventually do **** up.... Luckily I have plenty of practice so I know We'll be alright when it happens.....

I totally agree with Penny. Those who say they have perfect kids are liars.

Make sure that whatever happens you continue to talk about it, I have ranted and raved to anyone that would listen and often feel better for it.

My daughter has gone back to school today for the first time since the death of her friend. I forgot to give her money for lunch so I went into school at recess to give it to her. She seemed well and her friends are looking after her.

Hopefully we will all make it through our respective situations, it feels good to talk to others who have been through it or going through it.

It's perfectly natural as a parent to think that we are somehow responsible for our childrens' illness. But it's not true, mental illness can affect anyone - no matter how well loved and cared for they are. Don't believe anyone who suggests otherwise.

Daughter, who I thought was better, came out of swimming yesterday an hour early.
She apparently had only got 62% in her new lower grade maths test and had cried so much that she had to be sent to matron with chest pains. She had been expecting a much higher mark, having come down from the HL to the SL class. The nurse told her that she was doing too much and should give something up. DD loves everything she does, even though atm swimming is a problem for her. Her coaches told her not to swim the full session.

My daughter had what sounds like a panic attack- she is a real perfectionist, and is scared of what we will say. She says her mind went blank in the test, yet when she came out of school having done the test she had told me she thought it went well. The teacher told her that her mark was quite good, but it wasn't for her.

So now I feel like a bad parent- I'm not one of those tiger mums at all, and at her age I was just like her, always aiming very high. Yes, I'm disappointed, but she can hopefully learn from her mistakes. I'm also very disappointed with her swimming too, but there may be an underlying illness, and I know she isn't fit.

I don't want my poor daughter to feel that she isn't good enough.

It sounds to me that she's heading in the right direction to get Glandular Fever, doing too much, not enough rest, stressing about work/swimming etc. For her sanity and yours, I would really suggest she maybe drops the swimming for a few months, rest when she'd be swimming, concentrate on school work, that sort of thing. If she were to get GF she'd be losing everything for a few months and that would be really stressful. You're not a bad parent, you sound like a very good parent, encouraging her with all the things she wants to do and worrying about her so don't beat yourself up about it. xx

That's horrid for you both Caroline, try not to feel bad though (easy to say). At least this weekend a bank holiday then only 9 days of school and she can have a good long rest with no stress.

My daughter almost got into a state last night about a Maths exam today. She has done NO revision for it and I just asked how she felt about that and she started to gasp for air a little. I said there's no pressure just answer what you can, gave her cuddle, reassured her it didn't matter then she was ok again.
I feel awful admitting this but I wanted to say ' if we're not bothering with school any more, can you go to the state school now so we save some $'. I KNOW I can't do that to her, then I feel awful for even thinking of such a thing, I'm learning though - six months ago I would have said it!
Little sis comes home all full of her success in recent tests and that doesn't help, she also gets invited to tons of things and has two real best mates who live near us.

Northern Bird, how awful for your daughter to lose a friend. Was it an accident? My daughter's classmate was killed in a freak accident two years ago on a school trip - that kind of thing must stay with you for a long time. Glad her other friends are being kind to her - sometimes girls can be so bitchy at this age. I'm sure it's worse now - I remember being 'sent to Coventry' for 2 or 3 days but that's all my entire school life. Hope she continues to do OK

Suicide It's been a truly horrific week. Funeral is tomorrow, I am not looking forward to that. We live in a different world now. Social media plays a massive part in their lives. Someone actually posted anonymously on one social media site that my daughter was disgusting and it should have been her that died rather than Kim. Imagine writing that about another human being. Quite disgusting and as you can imagine it has affected my daughter.