My son was sectioned at Christmas 2020 due to extreme psychosis which ended with him punching his dad and us phoning the police. He was away for three months, heavily medicated against his will and is now very anti meds. His MH has been deteriorating to the point where a second section is imminent. He will not comply with home treatment and is becoming more and more violent (not towards people), smashing things up, putting holes in the walls, shouting obscenities at himself, screaming at us. He’s become nocturnal so he’s ranging around our home at night, taking food and leaving it out, breaking glasses and crockery. A couple of times our dogs have alerted us to him standing in our bedroom doorway staring. I know he will hate us for agreeing to a section and I feel so sad for him but we can’t live like this can we? Home treatment team and his MH worker have both told us to ring the police but I’m loath to put him through that again. On the other hand he is unlikely to go compliantly to hospital. It’s so difficult. Anyone with experience of this? What would you do?