She has been increasingly paranoid about her neighbour, who presumably has not been spying on her as she claims. Yesterday she threw a bowl of water over him and then flipped her lid for want of a better term and was screaming and shouting out the windows and then locked her self in a room in her house. She had a knife which her husband took off her and she packed a suitcase and said she was going to live on the streets and was completely out of reality. My mum phoned the doctor and then he came and then the police broke the door down and presumably a social worker? Sectioned her. She had to be forced into the ambulance and the police forced and strapped her down. They took her to a hospital, a mental health ward? I don't know.
Amazingly about four hours later she was completely lucid, rang my mum and was so sorry and upset but back to normal. She said she was sectioned for 28 days but I can't believe this is true, isn't it just 72 hours while they assess her? She said she had spoken to "a man" , a psychiatrist? And then she cried and felt a bit better.
Can anyone tell me what happens next? Do they try and diagnose her? Will they send her home with no help? She has slight learning difficulties but went to mainstream school, you wouldn't know to talk to her, she just can't remember things sometimes and gets very anxious and never leaves her house, so has no distraction from being paranoid about things. She gets a fixation on some things, like her neighbour. She recently turned vegetarian and has started shouting out the windows about not eating meat so obviously something is wrong with her. It's very upsetting.