Mental Health Advice - Sectioned But No Treatment
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I have a very close friend, she's had some major trauma in her life, abusive partners, the death of a child etc and she always had some issues with anxiety resulting in people thinking shes on drugs.
A couple of weeks ago she had another situation which was completely devastating to her, she completely broke down and got so bad social work got a 72 hour hold in a psychiatric hospital to assess her. She was convinced people were trying to kidnap her and she destroyed the flat fibre comms box to avoid "hacking". Shes also blames a lot of things happening on someone who lives in the building which is untrue.
After the initial chat with the doc they lifted the restriction and she was allowed out with someone the next day, although she stated 3 days she only seen 1 dr and had no more interaction apart from with ward staff.
They then let her out to go home and shes been suffering from compete paranoia including seeing things that aren't real, thinking tablets and TVs are exploding and terrified people are watching her.
I contacted the hospital and they said they would look into it, instead and even with all the info the doctor signed her off and put her in with community nurses who again were told but don;t seem to be doing much.
Last night she called me at 4am saying she could see into a portal and her family (who don't talk to her) were watching her and trying to drive her mad, she was also walking round the streets thinking she was being chased.
Shes clearly very much suffering from psychosis yet the Dr in the hospital gave her no meds, or treatments and simply let her back home saying its properly the stress of the argument with the other person that's causing it and she should go to the police.
Does anyone have thoughts on the best way to get her some real help or how to get a better response from current Drs? I know that without intervention she will once again end up in danger and be walking about terrified
A couple of weeks ago she had another situation which was completely devastating to her, she completely broke down and got so bad social work got a 72 hour hold in a psychiatric hospital to assess her. She was convinced people were trying to kidnap her and she destroyed the flat fibre comms box to avoid "hacking". Shes also blames a lot of things happening on someone who lives in the building which is untrue.
After the initial chat with the doc they lifted the restriction and she was allowed out with someone the next day, although she stated 3 days she only seen 1 dr and had no more interaction apart from with ward staff.
They then let her out to go home and shes been suffering from compete paranoia including seeing things that aren't real, thinking tablets and TVs are exploding and terrified people are watching her.
I contacted the hospital and they said they would look into it, instead and even with all the info the doctor signed her off and put her in with community nurses who again were told but don;t seem to be doing much.
Last night she called me at 4am saying she could see into a portal and her family (who don't talk to her) were watching her and trying to drive her mad, she was also walking round the streets thinking she was being chased.
Shes clearly very much suffering from psychosis yet the Dr in the hospital gave her no meds, or treatments and simply let her back home saying its properly the stress of the argument with the other person that's causing it and she should go to the police.
Does anyone have thoughts on the best way to get her some real help or how to get a better response from current Drs? I know that without intervention she will once again end up in danger and be walking about terrified
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