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Originally Posted by WeepingWillow23
I'm feeling pretty nauseated since stopping my med, but it's my own darn fault so I'm not complaining (much!) lol
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Eugh, yeah, coming off is almost worse than going on -- especially when the docs won't titrate you down! Glad your appetite is more normal, though!
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Originally Posted by WeepingWillow23
My new CPN wants to do a new care plan with me (as opposed to my last one which was just done so they could tick the audit box and is a load of crap I never even said!), and I was wondering if there was a section in there about what you are and aren't happy having/doing?
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I used to review them when I was a social worker (not write them) and I think they're always utter shite. You can't believe the number of ones I've read that make no sense or have the most banal crap on them . . . There was one CPN who felt the need to report under the "threats of self harm" section everyday injuries ANYBODY could get: "So-and-so often burns himself whilst boiling the kettle," or "So-and-so has unidentifiable rash which she reports is from nettles/detergent allergy/sunburn".
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Originally Posted by WeepingWillow23
Psych is the main area where we may not be able to decide what happens to us, but they don't seem to push the fact that, when we are more compus mentus, we are able to put this kind of thing in writing... They probably don't want their hands tied though - ugh!
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The NHS just published a new report, "No decision about me, without me".
http://data.parliament.uk/DepositedP...ewithoutme.pdf
It made my blood boil. I submitted a response here:
http://consultations.dh.gov.uk/choic...160044382/view
Saying it's a load of utter ******** until they repeal the Mental Health Act.
Also, 'compos mentos' in the UK is wholly different from "able to be forced to take psych drugs under the MHA". You can be mentally competent to do almost anything -- including refusing
physical medical treatment -- but you can still be forcibly drugged. It's utterly insane. Reforming that was one of the big reasons I wanted to become a lawyer.
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I do talk to my parents, well more my mum, about this kind of stuff. Like she knows I'm terrified of going into hospital and don't want ECT etc, but I know that she would override my wish to NOT go to hospital if she believed it was "in my best interests", and so I don't know what else she could be talked into 'for my sake' if you know what I mean...
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You should look here re: ECT
http://www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/Add...ed_in_new_s58A
Also, another thing to check out is that you may be able to displace your nearest relative under the MHA to someone you trust more to make medical decisions that you want. I think it can be done both whilst you're sectioned (though your statutory nearest relative will have the power until the court agrees to displace, and they won't always (often) agree) or before you're sectioned.
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I guess I'm worrying unnecessarily about this stuff right now because I keep having nightmares about being admitted to the psych ward and no-one listening to me and my parents just telling me "it's for the best" over and over. Scary stuff. The thought of that loss of control *shudder* Can you tell I'm a control freak yet?! lol  |
I don't really think it's a control issue that you want to avoid being locked up and tortured.
I have so much trauma from being sectioned I can't even talk about it all. You know, I haven't slept in an actual bed since my first section, when I was put in physical restraints for sixteen hours.
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lol but I only come up with clever things to say after the fact I'm afraid.
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You should have told her you'd rather work with mental people than idiots like her :P
I'm not always the most polite person, can you tell?
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