My husband is acting is strangely

@Deppcandouno I would reiterate all the PPs. Your DH is asking for help. You also need to keep safe.

Sounds worrying. My experience is limited to two friends, one long term MH problems and one had sudden psychosis with some similar symptoms to your DH.
Doctors need to rule out physical causes, I think hypothyroidism is one, and they should do other tests.
Look at it this way, if he had chest pain or had fallen down the stairs you’d be on the phone like a shot. This is just as serious and needs medical help you can’t supply.

Sending love

https://www.sane.org.uk/

You can ring 999 and ask for the police if you think your DH could harm himself or others.

Giving you these options in case for some reason you don't go to A&E or ring 111.

You can’t just ignore this OP. He needs help.

You must call for help this evening.

When my dad had psychosis, he said lots of things repeatedly and they made little sense and he read meaning into lots of things like adverts or the colour of birds. He was also very agitated and couldn't sit still. He wanted to be in the kitchen doing things but the things he did were just bizarre.

I'm not saying it is this as there are other possibilities, but swift intervention and treatment probably saved his life.

Sane Line 0300 304 7000 only before 10pm
Ring them for advice

Just to add- 111 option 2 is the mental health service within 111 and they will be able to triage. I previously worked on the emergency out of hours service as a social worker… my advice is to call now and not hope it improves as he is clearly telling you he needs help and a voluntary admission is much better than him being detained

Hopefully not a TIA. Please call to get advice from 111.

Has anything happened lately?

Does sound worrying.

He needs an assessment.

I'd honestly get him into A&E now op , I start not to trust people eventually

To balance this out, when my friend was psychotic & needed hospitalisation, they knew something was very wrong with them.

@Deppcandouno I would consider calling 999 if you feel desperate enough. They will I think get the crisis mental health team to do an assessment but he won't necessarily be hospitalised - my friend wasn't until he was active danger to himself and that was pre-covid, services are even more stretched now.

It can be really frightening calling for medical / official help, because you don't know what's going to happen and you worry you're going to make it worse. But this isn't the olden days whe anyone behaving strangely was shut up in bedlam, your husband will be assessed and some sort of plan put in place.

Don't be afraid it reach out to the health services for help, that's what they're there for.

Sounds like psychosis OP . I get messages through the tv when I have 😭

With my husband, he can have fleeting insight into his mental health when he is in psychosis at times. He knows something is wrong and when he is getting ill. However, recently, it didn't take him long to go from having this insight into his MH to having none at all, and becoming a danger to himself. It can certainly escalate quickly.

You need to call 111 OP, it could be a UTI, a head injury etc and that needs ruling out. They will decide if he needs to be seen today by the crisis team or the mental health liaison team if your A&E has one. If they think he can be managed and treated in the community with crisis support that is what they will try to do.

They may well wait to see him until tomorrow if you feel he can keep safe, but if that does happen, the second you have any concerns for his or your safety call emergency services.

I hope it isn't psychosis and it is something easily treatable.

Ring 111, or take him to A+E. This doesn’t sound like something that will improve by itself. I get you’re scared (mum and I had similar experiences with my dad in the past), but he needs help from somewhere.

I understand that it's scary, I feel for you. But if I was you I'd be more scared of what might happen if you don't.

He sounds like he's in crisis. If he hurts himself, or takes his own life, you don't want to be looking back thinking 'if only I'd called someone then'.

Sorry to be blunt but I lost my brother to suicide and I'd give anything to have a chance to save him. I wouldn't wish it on anyone. He fact he's telling you he should be sectioned means he has some insight and it may not come to that. Get him help.

We don’t have that in the UK

Hi OP, having dealt with psychosis in my family, the fact that he notices that he has blackouts and his brain does weird things makes me think that it may not be that - afaik, in acute psychosis people tend to lose understanding of their own mental state. But that's just my experience.

But blackouts and garbled language absolutely need looking into. As pp said, burying your head in the sand is not going to help. Yes, it's scary! I wouldn't wish being caught up in the mental health treatment machinery on anyone (except a couple of psychiatrists I've met).

But it may be entirely treatable, and if it's something serious, the sooner it gets addressed the better. I'd take him to a+e. I'll be crossing my fingers for a diagnosis of something treatable other than psychosis.

A and E is a very horrible place. There will be no warm hugs and care there and you'll be waiting a very long time. Will he be able to tolerate that.

I find 111 really absolutely useless with the exception l of the time they had a GP call me quite quickly and sort a prescription.

GP first thing as an emergency appointment id say. I know it feels scary what he's said. Hospitals are very horrible places, resources are low. People who just attempted suicide are actually often discharged the next day with the promise of a call. I've been in hospital with health problems and watched this time and time again with people in desperate situations.

I think the GP might help you access the best place to go and get him straight in hopefully without sitting in A and E forever. Poor guy. Hope he gets through this.

Your local mental health trust may have a Crisis Line

It could also be the result of a brain injury, or even a tumour. Please get medical help now.

My neighbour had a tumour and talked bollocks and spent hours looking for a lost key

If you are meaning involuntary sectioning then - depending where you are living - you have to convincetat your are afraid for your kife or you are afraid he might hurt himself. This might be necesary if he doesn't recognize what is going on. Otherwise A and E should do the trick.

If you don't think you're husband can keep himself safe, 999 or a&e. Otherwise 111.

Re being scared of what might happen - if you do nothing, things are unlikely to improve and may get a lot worse. Burying your head in the sand won't help. If you call 111, then they can start helping him. That's positive. As someone who's been in a MH hospital (if that's your fear) then I found it to be a helpful and necessary and was in a lot better place when I came out. But we don't know your husband needs that.

He needs a doctor OP, it could be something as small as a kidney infection or something worse, but what’s important is a medical professional sees him

When did he last wander off? And more importantly when did he say he thinks he'd meet the criteria to be sectioned?