How do people get sectioned?
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Magog said:
Sorry 
I was trying to be helpful but with a hint of smart-arse. I won't promise it will never happen again but I'll try my best
Edited by thetapeworm on Thursday 25th February 17:50
condor said:
This is more a query out of curiosity, as opposed to any dodgy friends 
BUT How do people get sectioned? How bad do they have to be?
The ways I can think are,BUT How do people get sectioned? How bad do they have to be?
1) Walk into your local department of psychiatry mutter about being 'unclean' and 'doing the devils work' as a voluntary patient and speak to a resident doctor. If considered minor you can be a 'voluntary patient'. If you are considered so bad you can be an involuntary patient, sectioned by thr Mental Health Act
2) If living in the community with regular assesment by a MH team your behaviour deteriorates you can be sectioned by a doctor - and taken away by hospital staff or the Police
3) You are detained on the street by street by the Police under section 136 of the MHA as you are in need of immediate care + control and taken to the dept of psychiatry where the doctor again, sections you.
I am sure there are many other ways too, wibble.
Very, very grey area TBH.
I regularly see the same people admitted to A&E time and time again after self-harm or overdoses, and nothing seems to be done after the emergency treatment.
The few that the police remove from the streets under Sec 136 tend to end up in the cells. Rarely do they go direct to the psychiatric hospital for assessment.
Psychiatrists won't even look at anyone who's had a drink, so the majority of overdoses and suicide attempts are left for the A&E staff to deal with. And self-discharging from A&E is just a signature away.
The only people who get sectioned routinely are the elderly with dementia.
I regularly see the same people admitted to A&E time and time again after self-harm or overdoses, and nothing seems to be done after the emergency treatment.
The few that the police remove from the streets under Sec 136 tend to end up in the cells. Rarely do they go direct to the psychiatric hospital for assessment.
Psychiatrists won't even look at anyone who's had a drink, so the majority of overdoses and suicide attempts are left for the A&E staff to deal with. And self-discharging from A&E is just a signature away.
The only people who get sectioned routinely are the elderly with dementia.
k though 
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