Crisis team

[Olimar]

I've been put under the crisis team again. I don't need them, I'm not depressed or suicidal. I had to agree to have them to get out of hospital, otherwise they were going to section me. Now they are telling me I need to sleep and that all humans need to sleep. Well I don't so maybe I'm not human, I mean I don't remember being born so I could have come from another planet instead.

@Olimar I hope you're doing ok.

Maybe go back to your previous threads here on MN and just read them through? - they'll help you and give some insight/reminders into possible ways forward.

There was lot of support for you then and there's still a lot of support here for you now xx

Hi @Olimar
Did you manage to get out or have you got a 28 day section now?

I’ve also been wondering how you are @Olimar . Sending love.

I got out of the 136, but now I'm in another hospital. They have me an injection o haloperidol and I sleep for 10 hours. Trying to escape but they're called security.

Sleep is good. I would say best not to try and “escape” or you might end up back on a section. Need to work with them. Wishing you well.

sleep is a healer so they say. I’m on haloperidol daily, makes me very sleepy. Thanks for updating, I hope things improve for you x

They won't listen to me that I don't need sleep that's why they forced me to have the injection. I hate it here, so boring and no one talks to me.

Hospital is horrible, have they sectioned you? I know how you feel, you just get ignored. Can you work with them to get released sooner? Last time I was in (November) I just agreed with everything they said and they lifted the section after 5 days and sent me home with discharge in under two weeks. It meant I was still unwell when I came out but at least I wasn’t in hospital. If you agree to medication then they might let you out quicker. You can have haloperidol in tablet form like I do. I take it at night so I’m less sedated in the day. Keep updating us x

Thinking about you @Olimar
It’s a long time since I’ve been in an NHS psych ward so it might be worse now but aren’t there any interesting other patients to talk to?

I'm not on a ward I'm on a 136 suite on my own..

Thinking of you too OP. Hope you’re not there too long

Are they trying to find you a bed on a ward?

@Scutterbug I don't know I have to wait to see the doctor tomorrow. Last time I was sectioned I spent over 9 weeks in the 136. I'm so lonely and bored.

@Olimar im so sorry, I’ve no experience of being stuck in the 136, I thought you could only stay there a few hours until you had an assessment and then you would either be sectioned and put in a ward or sent home? Are you in the uk? I really hope that you get somewhere with some company soon. What are you hoping for from the dr tomorrow?

Maybe there is no one available over the weekend to assess you. Hoping the doctor arrives bright and early Monday morning and you make progress. Offering a virtual handhold and company.

Are you definitely on a section 136 ward@Olimar ?

I'm glad though that you're allowed access to your phone - that must help a bit because you can keep in touch with family and friends.

What have the police/ doctors/medical staff said in their latest update?

@Scutterbug they lifted the section after 5 days and sent me home with discharge in under two weeks. It meant I was still unwell when I came out but at least I wasn’t in hospital. If you agree to medication then they might let you out quicker. You can have haloperidol in tablet form like I do. I take it at night so I’m less sedated in the day.

How are you feeling now? Are you still feeling unwell or is your medication working?

@setmestraightplease i think I’m becoming unwell again. I’ve posted a thread about it so I don’t detract from OP and her issues. Thank you so much for asking x

I was assessed on Friday and put on a section 2 but they have kept me in the 136 room most of the time since. I was allowed onto the main ward for an hour on Saturday but got dragged back in here for apparently acting inappropriately.

Did they say what was inappropriate?

I don't know. I was allowed another hour on the ward today but I was supervised at all times by staff. I also got given a jigsaw, a book and a newspaper.

Good you made it back on the ward.

@Olimar im glad they’ve given you something to do. Are you on new medication?

They made me have my aripiprazole depot and want me to start taking Lamotrigine again.

@Olimar and how do you feel about that? Does it seem like something you would do willingly? I switched from aripiprizole to haloperidol but I do take lamotrigine too. Apparently it stabilises my mood (not that I’ve noticed anything different but I take it at the moment to keep them quiet!)