Good morning all, I hope you all had a good night’s sleep...better than me anyway!
Yesterday I had to call 999 as my fiancé and daddy to our six month old daughter was having a breakdown. He had one last year while I was pregnant and quickly recovered, but there are clearly ongoing MH issues. We have recently moved nearly 500 miles from family and friends for a new job, so I don’t have much of a support network here and don’t want family to worry as they are so far away. My fiancé has not been violent, in fact almost the complete opposite, his MH state causes him to become over protective, constantly saying ‘I love you’ to me and daughter, pacing, paranoid checking of door lock and that no one is there to ‘get us’, worrying that we will leave him. Yesterday he paced with our little M in his arms for over two hours, constantly saying ‘are you alright my love ‘ and kissing her head. Although he knew she needed feeding/changing/a nap he just couldn’t break the cycle. In the end I had to call 999 and the police came and took him to hospital. He is currently awaiting transfer fro our small local hospital to a larger one with a specialist MH unit. They said this morning that due to his agitated state they are sectioning him. I’m now waiting for him to be transferred so I can take through some things for him as he only had the clothes he was wearing yesterday.
I’ve just had a call from social services as with police and a child they need to check on situation, someone is coming to see us in an hour or so. Hopefully they will be able to offer some support for us as very isolated out here.
We’ve got one heck of a journey ahead, last time he was sent to a unit on the south coast, we are now up in the Highlands so not sure where he is going to be!
Long post I know, thank you if you’ve made it to the end! I just need to ‘download’ some of this...a problem shared and all that!