Posting here for traffic - what happens after you've been in A&E with an overdose?

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I am waiting for my CMHT to open as I've been told I have to call them today as A&E are contacting them due to my being in there last night.

I don't remember much, but I remember I took an overdose of sleeping pills last night. It wasn't actually a suicide attempt - I just wanted everything to go away for a while and for me to sleep. But my husband found a suicide note in my car while he was taking me into hospital and apparently I confessed to trying to find a way off the Erskine Bridge where I could jump (which I didn't mean to tell anyone) and babbled a lot about voices shouting at me (which I also didn't mean to say) and now they want me to go back to my psychiatrist who I've not seen in months.

I'm not suicidal now. I just want to go back into work and get on with things. Will he let me? How much trouble am I in? They won't make me go back into hospital, will they?

Have bipolar disorder but haven't had an episode in 6 months. I just want to get on with it and not have people fussing.

After something like the overdose you took has happened, all the people who are working with you want to do is to listen to you and work with you to keep you safe. Nobody can tell you exactly what will happen, it will depend on a lot of things. What definitely will happen though is some support is going to be offered to you, please let these people help you.

As much as you say it wasn’t a suicide attempt, OP, the note very much suggests otherwise.

Sadly, it’s not the kind of thing people won’t ‘fuss’ over. I don’t think you’ll have to go back to A&E unless they deem you to be a risk to yourself and to others, but it’s not like tripping over a pavement and going back to work the next day.

But it wasn't. It really wasn't. I have other medication which would have been much more effective if it had been. The suicide note was for the jumping off the bridge which I didn't do.

The sleeping pills were just to make the rest of the day go away because everything was going a bit to shit.

Are you in the RAH or the Queen Elizabeth?

Op, I really hope you get good support through this. Unfortunately it's serious and should be treated as such. Please be kind to yourself and accept all help and support

Can only say what would happen within my cmht, so it might not be right for You!

Did you get seen by psychiatric liaison at hospital? If so their recommendations will get passed on
The cmht will get a notification about what happened and possibly some notes from whoever saw you. They would then make contact to see what's happening and how you feel today.

Depending on how they think things are going they will decide what happens next is it might be an increase in support e.g. closer appointment with psychiatrist, or more intensive support like the Crisis team. It may be that your meds aren't quite right.

I know that going in to hospital seems scary, but that tends to be a last resort so you should be able to work with them to help prevent it. But no od does not automatically equal hospital.

Ultimately it sounds like things are difficult at the moment and things like voices and thoughts about bridges are hard to live with. Please be honest with them, they might be able to help. Call in and just see what they offer.

silvousplaitmerci Queen Elizabeth but they just let me out under my husband's care and he is meant to call Riverside when they open. I don't remember a psych liaison but I don't remember much. I was rather out of it.

Usually a referral to the rapid access mental health team - here in NI anyway. Social services referral if children involved. That's about the height of it really!

When I took an overdose and was rushed by ambulance to the hospital I saw the psychiatric liaison officer in A&E and he informed me he would be contacting the CMHT and social services.

Discharged late that night and the following day I was seen by my psychiatrist and CMHN. Social services rang and spoke to my husband but as I hadn't taken the overdose when at home alone with the children they were not too concerned. It's a formality really.

Extra care was given to me. Additional meds and the home to hospital team came to visit every day. They did not admit me though.

I hope you are able to get the help you need. Sounds like things are rough for you right now. ((Hug))

How did you get on op?

Hello. Sorry didn't reply earlier. Signed off work, under home treatment team for the foreseeable. Sort of a relief in the end. Still not very good, and struggling a bit, but still here.

They say I'm having a mixed manic episode which sucks. But I guess I just have to keep going and hope I'll get there.