What if I avoid the professionals?
If professionals are very concerned about you, and want to assess you, they have various powers that will allow them to do this.
Under section 135, there are two grounds on which an AMHP can obtain a warrant to enter your home. The first is if you are living alone and not caring for yourself. The second is if you are cared for by someone else, but not being kept ‘under proper care or control’. The police also have the power to remove, from a public place to a place of safety (under section 136), someone who is suffering from a mental disorder and is in need of care or control, in order to have them assessed.
From the Mind website
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