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sherlock holmes · 19-06-2011, 05:18 PM

You should contact PALS. We there any witnesses to your restraint?

I was on a section 3 in 2008. It was horrible being in the secure hospital with the other patients, but the nurses were as nice as they could be with the resources they had. I hated my psychiatrist though, because she kept saying I was really ill and she was going to renew my section and that I was harming my family and was manipulative. No-one believed me when I said I wasn't that ill, they just believed whatever she said when she was basing her opinion from reports that were two years old.

I had a managers hearing and a tribunal, both said that I had to remain on my section. It was only when my psychiatrist applied to renew my section that I had an automatic managers hearing where they asked to see me (I didnt want to see them anymore because I thought they wouldnt listen to me) and it turned out they thought I was not ill enough to warrant detention anymore. So I was free to go when my section expired.

But my psychiatrist wouldnt increase my leave or anything. So I was about to be discharged after six months and I had not even spent a night at home since the incidents that led me to be sectioned in the first place. So I was kind of thrust back into the real world after being institutionalised and I couldnt cope. I developed agoraphobia which took me two years to overcome!

19-06-2011, 05:18 PM	#4
sherlock holmes do you like my potato? Join Date: Mar 2004	You should contact PALS. We there any witnesses to your restraint? I was on a section 3 in 2008. It was horrible being in the secure hospital with the other patients, but the nurses were as nice as they could be with the resources they had. I hated my psychiatrist though, because she kept saying I was really ill and she was going to renew my section and that I was harming my family and was manipulative. No-one believed me when I said I wasn't that ill, they just believed whatever she said when she was basing her opinion from reports that were two years old. I had a managers hearing and a tribunal, both said that I had to remain on my section. It was only when my psychiatrist applied to renew my section that I had an automatic managers hearing where they asked to see me (I didnt want to see them anymore because I thought they wouldnt listen to me) and it turned out they thought I was not ill enough to warrant detention anymore. So I was free to go when my section expired. But my psychiatrist wouldnt increase my leave or anything. So I was about to be discharged after six months and I had not even spent a night at home since the incidents that led me to be sectioned in the first place. So I was kind of thrust back into the real world after being institutionalised and I couldnt cope. I developed agoraphobia which took me two years to overcome!
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