[spiritual_emergency]

I have been in contact with a mother in the UK who is trying to secure some help for her daughter. What follows is a brief summary of her experience in her own words...

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My daughter went into hospital (Section 3) after trying to commit suicide. She had borderline personality disorder and couldn't cope with things, it all became too much. She has a husband and 2 wonderful children and we think it could be postnatal depression that may have started this. The hospital she is in is not in our area and she is approximately an hours drive from us and her family. She has now been in a secure unit for over 2 years...

Source: UK Mum Requires Assistance

This mother is desperate to help her daughter and family. Please click the sourced link above to read the rest of her story, posted on my blog. If you are in the UK and may know of some resources that will be helpful to her, please share that information in the comments section of that post or in this space. In particular, it will be helpful for her to hear from others who have made an appeal to the tribunal boards and won. If you are not in the UK and do not know where she might find additional assistance please share her story with others in case they know of someone.

Thank you.

[Greg77733]

I am a male and I checked out the music of the day thing, A little girly but I liked it thanks As with overseas Clueless, but I will pray!!!

[spiritual_emergency]

Someone responded privately to note that the link above wouldn't work for them. Anyone interested should be able to easily access that mum's story here: http://spiritualrecoveries.blogspot.com/

And glad that you enjoyed the music Greg. It changes all the time -- I'll look for something a little less girly there next time.

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[spiritual_emergency]

It's now been five days since I made that entry and very little information has been forthcoming. If you've not yet clicked the link above to read that mother's story, please do so -- it's not as long as many of my other posts and will only take a minute of your time. As a brief reminder, the woman has committed no crime but she has been locked up for more than two years, away from her husband, children, and extended family. Her forced hospitalization and continued separation from her husband and children has become the greater threat to her life.

If you do not have any personal words of experience to share, please share that link and her story with someone else. Somewhere out there is someone who can help this mother and her daughter. Meantime, my thanks to those of you who have read her story and offered a word of support, publicly or privately. That information has been passed on to her.

Thank you.

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[Rapunzel]

I read this when you first posted it, but since I don't have experience with the U.K. system, I wasn't sure what to say. Two years does seem like a very long time, and it seems clear that what they are doing in the program the woman is in is not working. I wonder if they would consider transferring her to another program on that basis - maybe one that will treat her more effectively and with more understanding. Some programs operate on a philosophy that they have all the power and all the knowledge, etc., and they work by taking all control away from the patient to make them submit. It sounds like that is what this program is doing. I've seen enough of that philosophy to see that even when they get immediate results, it doesn't last because the person isn't making a choice to get better, and isn't learning how to be in control of their own life. There are better ways. If control isn't working, I say try empowerment (with support).

[iamtwilight]

posted forward.

twilight

[spiritual_emergency]

Rapunzel: I read this when you first posted it, but since I don't have experience with the U.K. system, I wasn't sure what to say. Two years does seem like a very long time, and it seems clear that what they are doing in the program the woman is in is not working.

I don't have much familiarity with the UK system either and I admit to being stunned when I realized this woman had been held for more than two years -- especially given her diagnosis. I can't recall ever hearing of anyone else with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder who was hospitalized against their will for such a long period of time. I don't know all the details of course, but I am trying to scrape up some help for that mom. If that was my child in there, I'd be sick with worry and concern.

Thanks for your thoughts Rapunzel and also to IamTwilight. (I like your signature by the way.

~ Namaste

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