I think if you find after sometime that you really cannot manage in the community, then you and your team need to be looking for a specialist placement/therapeutic community.
As the others have said, you do not want to just be sectioned.
I can understand where the thought is coming from. It can be incredibly difficult at home and I guess the illusion is that if you were to be sectioned, they would be taking all those pressures off of you and you wouldn't be fighting on your own. In some respects this is true, but there are an awful lot of negatives too. Quite often, acute hospitals are unsupportive environments because there are many patients and staff become over-stretched etc or don't have the right training to deal with self harm. Then there are no activities to do either so you end up having to occupy your time on your own, with all those horrible thoughts. It's sad really.
Wishing you the best of luck xx
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