A child attending South Kerry CAMHS asked the doctor who blew the whistle on the care given to children if he was going to die as a result of his overmedication.
The father of Jason O’Connell said his son was prescribed Risperidone while under the care of South Kerry CAMHS.
Jason subsequently begged his father Maurice to be taken off the drug after he reported feeling sick and saying, “my mind isn’t right”.
Mr O’Connell said Jason began the drug but after three to four months, “we noticed that he was getting nightmares and his personality changed completely. He lost his smile and his bubbliness,” Mr O’Connell said on RTÉ’s Prime Time.
Mr O’Connell brought Jason to a consultant to be assessed due to the effects of the drug and the consultant told him the side effects he was experiencing were “normal”.
“The consultant said: ‘that’s normal and we will keep him on it because as far as I can see, he’s doing okay’.
“I told him he wasn’t doing well and wasn’t sleeping so he was prescribed an over-the-counter sedative - melatonin.
“His personality and his eating were out of control. I could give him dinner at 4pm and he’d be hungry half an hour later.
“Jason asked me to take him off the medication. He said: ‘please Dad, will you take me off it. My mind isn’t right and I feel sick every time I take it’,” Mr O’Connell said.
Mr O’Connell said he later received a phone call from a doctor asking him to attend a meeting on a Saturday, which he thought very strange.
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