Thanks very much Math and Half we definitely may go down legal route though have a bit of movement in things happening.
We have CCTV turned off and cardboarded over which is a start though no bathroom door or TV and he never goes out of room. He is in normal room again. They have since a week been covertly medicating him with lorazepam in his food and they now think they will find a way to do asd diagnosis. Lorazepam has improved the catatonia a lot though makes him drowsy but he has been up and about his room a lot more. Though they are puzzled by his behaviour, he keeps moving his mattress everywhere - on top of desk, on top of toilet though he has always done taking sofas apart and distributing, climbing up the doorframes, climbing over his toilet, climbing the shelves, putting paper on his bathroom walls, putting water over a tent and all over his floor, covering cctv, sheet over bathroom, throwing himself on beanbag, throwing his plate and cup, growling at staff, blocking the vents, blocking the water from sink and toilet and gaming all night on ipad, putting beanbag on toilet, screwing up his education plan. Tonight DH went and found DS asleep (likely the sedative) with his mattress on the desk. So now they are trying to work to work out why he is doing these things and its difficult when he is not communicating but they are worried about psychosis. Its difficult as some is very clear like the covering cctv and covering door, he wants privacy and the grunting and throwing himself on beanbag, throwing plate etc happened when staff where arguing he could not have privacy so those are obvious. Has always moved furniture though bit strange he's putting it on toilet though he loves Ninja Warrior and his ipad was broke when he did this and he was apparently running over everything or it could be a protest. We had a meeting yesterday and another one on Monday, another on Tuesday, another on Wednesday and the MH Tribunal on Friday. The hospital appear to want him out but say he needs to go elsewhere with 24/7 observations and so health are arguing against a return to home until this assessment is over. But this place and staffing level does not exist and no-one is looking for it. This is how people end up stuck in hospitals. I don't think he needs 24/7, he's never harmed himself or others and has the activity level of a sloth. And we are here 24/7. Just hope can reason with people. We are going down again at the weekend.