community-based psychiatric adventures of the mentally normal

[Mitchy1nge]

am not sure if mavis is still in this one

You could also try asking if someone from the ward could go and get you something to eat if you have some money. They won't want you to not eat, so they may well send someone out for you, or let you go out accompanied.

Much better to do it that way than just ask to leave and then get barred from leaving the ward at all.

hope DP brings you some food enpo, that should help

Dp is bringing food. I can't eat their foo . They gave me a special diabetic single serve syrup sponge pudding with lunch and I can't stop crying at the guilt that they're trying to help and I just can't eat it as its full of sugar and other carbs and more calories than I would eat in a whole lunch. Have managed some broccoli and a slice of meat with the gravy scraped off. Feel too sick and crying too much to eat anyway. I just want to leave.

I should be getting out tomorrow.

On Enpo sorry you're feeling so awful and I know you hate being in hospital but I'm glad you are, as you will be kept safe and get better. Is this your 1st time as an IP.......it's better to comply and Keema has explained about the different sections of the MHA.

The next few days/weeks are going to be tough - psych wards are very boring and the time goes slowly.........and yes best thing about food is for DP to bring it in as he will know what you like/need to eat. Hospital food in my experience is pretty crap anyway.

Thinking of you and we're here to support you - some of us have been there...........

Am getting out tomorrow away fronm the coercive bastards

Cannot live like this

Oh Epno, I really feel for you as I've been where you are very recently and it sucks. I'm glad your DH is going to being you food.

Enpo, sorry you've ended hospital but as someone who has also been there recently I echo Keema's advice to cooperate. It's infinitely preferable to being under a section. I hope you get the food situation sorted soon.

good luck enpo, find a way of working with them and I hope you are home and feeling better soon x

Help am voluntary but they won't let me out also poor signal

He brought all wrong clothes and I got upset and told him to leave, then asked him to come back as I'm discharging myself - butbthey won't open the doors

It says f you're not sectioned a staff member will be happy to open the door for you. Its a lie

I know it's really upsetting for you Enpo and my DP brought all the wrong clothes too..........the thing is I think you are voluntary at the moment because you agreed to go into hospital, but you are far too poorly to be at home at the moment (though I know you don't think so) and the hospital has a duty of care to you, and so if you try to discharge yourself they could use a section of the Mental Health Act to keep you in hospital.

In time - when you are better you'll be glad you were kept safe, but that's going to take a while............do you use a laptop or just a smartphone? I think they will let you have your laptop if that would help.

SUCCESS discharge against medical advice. DP agreed to be responsible. I signed some random piece of paper. I'm out.

Erm, I'm not on this thread but simply had to thank you for the article you posted, Mitch :) I'm going to tell my GP I might have tardive dysphoria. She loves it when I book a double appointment

yay garlic glad you liked it, is a well written piece of chat isn't it

am they let you go enpo but hopefully DP has your best interests at heart

But he has a good line in appearing concerned

Oh Enpo, I don't think that was your wisest decision. I'm fairly horrified they let you leave. Please try and keep safe.

Good lord, Enpo, nobody's such a vindictive little bitch that they deserve to die! It's not even a capital crime in the most hanging-happy nation in the world.

Here's a thing I learned. It sounds like a good idea for you at the moment. I had to get a little book, and write in it all the good things people said about me. I started off with a few (could only think of a few back then) things I remembered from before going mad ()

After the first day, I added at least one new bit of positive feedback each day. Some days there'd be loads; other days maybe just a smile from a ticket collector or something. The idea was to keep reading the book from start to finish - as it grew, so I was getting more & more proof that I'm an OK person :)

It's a bog-standard self help thing, this, but during that phase of my life was a real safety net. Hope you find it valuable, too.

Going to kill myself at first available opportunity. I'm not doing all this again.

I'm gobsmacked they let you out. I think your DH is an idiot for agreeing to take responsibility as well.

You were in hospital, miserable but safe. You're now at home miserable and unsafe. It's not really a step up.

Call crisis and FFS stop with this hanging mularky.

Evening all. And hi there, EnpoTree. We're so sorry to hear things are so difficult for you. We hope you don't mind but when threads like this are reported to us we usually post a link to our mental health resources:
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We'd really like to urge you to give someone a call or an email. Try [email protected] perhaps?
We sincerely hope you're able to access some help tonight.
Best wishes from MNHQ.

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