To discharge myself from cmht

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Have a MHA coming up on Wednesday with CMHT. I don't need it, I'm absolutely fine. Can I cancel it without causing an over reaction from them or social services?

MHA= Mental Health Assessment correct?
If so, I would go. If you’re fine, they will see that and agree to discharge you. Cancelling will make them think you are not fine/hiding an illness.

I saw your other post, you probably ought to stick to posting there so people have the context.

I think you prpbably ought to stick to the care team/plan too.

Yes. It was only because I was really low and the GP over reacted

If you cancel, you risk being sectioned. Much better to go to the assessment

If you’re really ok then go and they will see that you’re fine and discharge you. No big deal.

I have a history of MH issues including a referral to the CMHT for assessment in the past. And the appointments I least wanted to go to were at the tines I most needed to.

Stick with the appointment. According to your posting history, you self injured 4 days ago, so I expect things aren't quite totally fine and that their continued support is likely to be beneficial, especially given that we're living in difficult times at the moment.

It may be different in your health trust, but here if they discharge you, you get open access and remain a patient for 6 months after. If you miss appointments or discharge yourself, and you need to go back into the system, you start at the bottom of the waiting list again

I was referred to cmht weds by the GP the cmht rang weds Thurs and Fri and I have the MHA Wednesday. I am fine now, it was just a blip

Don't cancel. Attend the appointment and then tell them you don't need any further intervention.

I would imagine with that time scale, the GP did an urgent referral. The wait is a minimum 6+ months here for a normal referral and I imagine most places aren't much better. If you don't attend the appointment it'll cause alarm bells

But surely if they were actually concerned they wouldn't have left me with children alone for a week?

Go to it, you are not likely to be sectioned there and then, but they may be able to offer low level support, just to tide you over.

I've had people in full blown psychosis who have not been sectioned due to lack of beds etc so I'm sure that it'll be OK.

But do go the meeting. They are better trained than the GP.

The above is from a work perspective but from a personal perspective my ex dp had severe intrusive thoughts, suicidal ideation etc and wasn't sectioned but they supported him to manage his feelings and they never said he couldn't be alone with our dcs.

I don't need to be sectioned anyway I'm more concerned they will get funny about the children but I'm absolutely fine now, it was just a bad week.

You're being very vague. If the GP made an urgent referral to the CMHT then they were obviously concerned about your mental health.

Lol we’ve all been there. Ohhh fine today, don’t need medication, that’s just the bipolar.

Just go.

If you fail to engage then they are more likely to make a social services referral.

It sounds like an urgent rat5her than emergency referral and they must be really concerned to see you right now.

How do you know next week or the week after won't be bad weeks?

I think they are more likely to worry more if you don’t engage with them. They try to avoid sectioning people as much as possible due to lack of beds and most support being within the community. Please try and talk to them.

I'm not concerned about being sectioned I know I'm nowhere near that point and they have spoken to me enough over the past few days to know I'm safe.

As others have already pointed out, your GP must have been very concerned to push through an urgent referral. And now you're minimising. Attend the assessment, let the professionals see that you're ok. Failing to do so will trigger a call to social services without a doubt.

I've read your other threads.

Last week you talked about having a suicide plan and also asked for advice about making a will and if you could specify where your kids would go when you died.

These are all huge red flags for someone who will commit suicide imminently, you don't recover from that in a few days so need help.

Why don't you want their support?

I’ve seen other threads too. You need to engage with the services and not try to minimise what got you to this point.

I would still have the appointment but with the aim of asking them: “I feel fine now but what shall I do if those feelings ever come back?”

You can't self discharge from an MHA, Concern does not disappear.

If you dont go, you will set a whole new set of wheels in motion. As a pp said: you cant just discharge yourself from the mental health team, it doesn't work like that. If you want social services involvement then that is a sure way to get it.

But surely if they were actually concerned they wouldn't have left me with children alone for a week?

There are different levels of concern. They obviously didn't think you were an immediate danger to yourself or your children but they may have thought that you might need additional support in order to maintain your mental health. I would go to the appointment and explain why you don't feel you need additional help.