Exhausted all possible avenues.

Retired_at_55

DomRavioli wrote: »

In the nicest way possible, I've been under MH for 23 years. Take the treatment - you're still under a section (albeit a community treatment order) and one more stunt like that and you will be back in secure inpatient care, on a more severe section.

You seem so hell bent on sabotage through any means. If you aren't getting on with your meds, or are having problems, you HAVE to tell your care team. They aren't mind readers and have hundreds of patients.

If you really want to get out of your section, you comply with treatment, you get better, and then they take it off. Then you can travel freely (with some restrictions as some foreign countries won't take anyone who has had a section) and get on with life instead of this 4 year circle.

If you do the same things, you get the same result. Stop dreaming, start doing things that will help you.

Re travelling abroad: We were on holiday in USA a few years ago and there was a single traveller in the group who talked about the huge travel insurance premium excess she had to pay because she had a mental health history of having been 'sectioned' just once a number of years previously - but had never had a recurrence.

Like us this lady had travelled with the 'ESTA' type visa.

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Ames

Confuseddot wrote: »

Sorry to hear this Ames, are you feeling better now ? Do you have support of a community mental health team or doctors or someone ? It's a shame A&E weren't very understanding, in most cases you wouldn't be there is there was another option. We have a crisis centre, do you have anywhere like that where you could go when you feeling so bad to keep yourself safe ?

I'm OK, although now that my arm's just about healed I'm starting to get anxious again. I have a CPN but it's just to deal with crisis plans etc. so won't be for much longer. We're talking about what referrals might be appropriate.

There's a 'survivor led crisis service', which is open five nights a week. The rapid response mental health team at A&E told me that I should have gone there instead, but it was a night it was closed.

teddysmum

davidplans wrote: »

What's the worst that can happen if I sectioned? I'll be in hospital. The hospital I'm taken too isn't some kind of acute psychiatric hospital but a learning disability hospital which I've been too 9 times now in 6 years, the staff are lovely and it's more of a residential home then a hospital so I have no objections to being sectioned and they know that! What I do object to is being given antipsychotic medication forcibly through a monthly injection against my will and if I refuse the police will be called to take me to hospital again against my will to be injected.

The worst could be that, if you don't co-operate, you may not be taken to the nice place that you are happy to stay in and the way to not be forced to take medication is to take it voluntarily.


It is being given to help,not punish you.

faerielight

It is a truck load of meds!but it does include morphine and other physical health meds, too. The psyc meds are 3 different anti D's, amitriptyline, mirtazapine and sertraline,high strength seroquels, pregabalin mood stabiliser, max strength, zolpidem and melatonin for sleep, diazepam and lorazepam. It all adds up to 40 odd tablets a day