To think there are people who play the system to get detained under the mental health act

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Seen a lot of it on tik tom people
lyinf in hospital beds after purposefully getting themselves detained by the police smiling and laughing

Quite, thank you. Police cannot 'section' anyone, but they can detain them.

Also this.

They do 'section' people. It is called Section 136 of the Mental Health Act... the same act that people are admitted to hospital under, which would be Section 2 or 3 (and there also loads of others).
'Section' is a just slang term.

No one said they didn't say that - of course they do. What they don't say is that you are being sectioned - because the police don't have the power to section anyone.

You appear to be quite ignorant as to how the UK MH system works.

National shortage of beds + high threshold for detention, impossible to fake for shits and giggles, people who’ve attempted suicide often don’t get a bed

YABU to believe what you see on socials

Yes this as well!

Tell that to the two doctors and AMHP who do the process that it's the police who section people. I am fairly clear that clinical professionals are very clear that sectioning is a process that HAS be carried about by a medical team - otherwise what would you call it? Both the doctors and the police do the same thing?

Yes they do!
Section 136/135 are part of the Mental Health Act.

No they don't, because detention includes staying after school too so of course it's not all relevant to a section of legislation 😂
Any detention from a professional agency such as the police or mental health services is under a section of a piece of legislation though. The right language would be detained under section × of the × act. The term 'sectioned' is not professional language, it is slang.

This.

When I have been 136d, the police tell me "XenoBitch, we are detaining you under Section 136 of the Mental Health Act".

If I get admitted after an assessment (that I refused), then I am told "we are admitting you under Section 3 of the Mental Health Act".

None have said "we are sectioning you".

In some cases yes people can play risk to get admitted as it’s based on
what they say a person who takes responsibility for their actions and says they will try and Maittain their safety are often sent home. That’s my own personal experience

Having powers to "detain under section 136 of the MHA" is what the police do, yes.

Is a separate thing to what the verb "sectioned" means.
To be "sectioned" means one has undergone the MHA assessment by mental health professionals.

Maybe it's the different uses of the word that is confusing you.

I’m not I’m in it myself

speaking from experience I spent 5 weeks in a inpatient at a psychiatric ward at an NHS hospital. They are not nice places. Constant on alert if anyone was trying to bother/attack me or steal my stuff. Can’t lock your door. Staff keep the ward/bedroom light on day and night, checking if you are dead every 10 minutes. It’s a holding pen for the mentally ill, no therapy.

I think some people need to read up on what a section is. It is just another term for part of the Mental Health Act, and there are loads of 'sections'. Not all are to do with hospital... Section 117 for example is to do with after care at home.
Section 136 is to do with the police taking someone to a place of safety/

No, to be sectioned is to be subject to a section of the MHA, of which 135 and 136 are part of.

I suspect that this poster knows it infinitely better than most people.

Then surely you’ve seen with your own eyes that you and your fellow inpatients are genuinely in need of help? People do shit for TikTok it’s not real life

I agree. My best friend spent time in Priory, and it sounded the total opposite to NHS places. Loads of activities, therapy etc.
NHS hospitals are literally just holding pens until your meds kick in.

I’m gonna use that quote ‘ TikTok is for schmucks’ love it!

No why on earth would anyone want their entire freedom and ability to make basic decisions about their lives taken away? Why would they choose to be detained?

What utter cobblers and insulting to people who've actually been sectioned. If you're interested it's fucking awful and some people who desperately need it don't even meet the threshold for detention.

I mean it literally says 'detain under section' - not sectioning - two different things. Detain is the verb or section is the verb. And as a verb is a doing word, you are either detaining or sectioning aren't you? The former is due to police emergency powers and the latter is an assessment carried out by clinicians.

'Sectioning' is slang.

The police detain someone under section.
Doctors etc admit someone under section.

Both are sections.

The more I type 'section' the weirder it looks 😜

Really?