Reflection of a mental health act section 2 for 28 days.

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The mental health section 2 was on 6th May 2016 for 28 days when assessments took shape over three hours by three different teams during that period after I had to phone the home treatment team and had to activate an acute relapse plan (ARP), on that day. Nuclear war references with extrasensory perception (delusional, hallucinations and manic thoughts in psychiatric services words) was troubling me with my preconception of future events.

The 6th May was stressful with the first assessment when my wish was an admission to the psychiatric hospital on a voluntary basis; their thoughts were not of an admission, per my request, but a further assessment by another team escalating the stress further into an extremely manic state in my bipolar manic mood state.

With the 2nd assessment the only information that the psychiatric doctor was requesting was whether I understood bipolar affective disorder, and my response was you’re the expert you tell me! The social worker and psychiatric doctor left the room at different times, without discussing the matter further with me, but I assume to fill in the paperwork for a mental health section 2 admission.

With this elevation of my manic state it had gone past the stage of accepting a voluntary admission and therefore I stated clearly my requirements were police involvement, who attended with an ambulance, psychiatric doctor and social worker ready to section me under the mental health act, even though my wishes hadn’t been respected during the first assessment, which I didn’t even realise was the second assessment to section. At that stage I stated that a couldn’t understand why I’d been sectioned for I wasn’t a risk to myself or others, a requirement under the mental health act for sectioning under a section 2 of the mental health act.

I was escorted to the ambulance by a policeman and driven to the psychiatric hospital with a policeman present within the ambulance, paramedics were also present in the ambulance and they took the usual statistics of blood pressure, pulse rate, oxygen level and diabetic sugar levels for my physical health. On admission I was presented with the usually paperwork of the section 2 under the mental health act, which is nothing really but a standard sheet of paper not even detailing the reason for the section, which is disgusting, in my opinion.

It was the general disorganisation of mind and thought that got me sectioned.