Advance statement

[in_BPD_hell]

Hi guys

Soo met the psychiatrist who rang my employer a year ago who I've moaned about constantly. Turns out it was purely my fault and she said that I needed to contact them or she would. She read out to me from the notes.. I apparently said 'we'll go on then, I don't give one.. I'll be dead anyway!!' So who knows what I was thinking!!!!! Anyway that was embarrassing!

So as part of my remedy I need to complete an advance statement so it says if I'm unwell what I will do etc...

My question is - do any of you have one? & if so what's on it? Xx thanks xx

[Bear]

My advance statement says which medication I would not want to take if I was too unwell to tell them.
Could you write in it who you would and wouldn't want to be contacted if you were ill? X

[not_so_insig]

I have one, which details medication that I wont take (for example mine is risperidone due to the fact I had a bad reaction to it in the past which was prescribed under a different psych and also flupentixol because of the side effects were unacceptable). I am also highly against ECT, so mine has that I do not wish to have ECT under any circumstances.

I have also put that I only want certain people to deliver my depot (two specific nurses in the cmht including my cpn because simply I am terrified of needles and I know I wouldnt trust the nurses there) and also if I am agitated I would only want female members of staff to talk to me (I have SA issues so I find it easier to talk to female members of staff).

Mine also covers who would take care of my pets (I have 3 cats), and it says who their vet is and the medical condition they all have. It also covers children but I do not have any so I put n/a in the relevant section.

I need to update mine as I wish to be given diazapam before any blood tests because I am scared of needles (if I were going to a blood test in an outpatients setting that is what I would do). I have asked for diazapam before when I was last IP but they refused, which made me even more anxious.