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Alice M. added a comment in Discussions: Being sectioned
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Alice M. said:
I have autism and I was offered a tour of a ward which I said yes to
voluntarily and then when the tour finished and I tried to leave I told that if
I tried to leave or if I put my hand on the door handle of the door to leave
the ward that I would immediately be sectioned. I was kept for over 3 weeks. I
kept asking everyday can I go home but they said no. I said I'm here
voluntarily yet if I try to leave I repeatedly threatened that I'll be
sectioned under the mental health act. I began each day asking to see a doctor
to discuss my discharge but I was refused. They said I'll see the doctor once
per week. Some weeks I did not get to see the doctor. I only had the clothes I
was wearing when I went I in. I had no toothbrush no pyjamas, no clean
underwear, no change of clothes. They refused to allow me to go home with a
member of staff to fetch my things until the end of the second week. Even then
I was supervised for each second I was at home and not allowed even to urinate
alone. Every day on the ward I begged could I please go home because of the
alarms repeatedly going off loudly and the screaming from very ill patients. I
was refused my own medication for my migraines (imigran) which I have on
prescription because I was told that my illness is manifesting as migraines!!!!!
there were laughter therapy classes at midnight, next door to my bedroom. My
bedroom had no windows.
the worst part of being an inpatient was not being able to speak to staff as
they all stayed locked inside the staff room (which had a glass window) in
which they stayed all of the time. There was different staff everyday and I
never saw the same staff twice.
physcal fights broke out between inpatients most days but staff never
intervened. This happened in 2012 but I still have nightmares about it very
regularly.
they took my charger for my mobile phone off me so I could not charge my phone
and there was no other way of using a phone. This was an NHS adult psychiatric
ward.
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Hayley K.
Autistic people that are sectioned face a very disturbing situation. They are
placed in an unsuitable environment that is a "sensory nightmare" and then they
have to deal with the fighting off the negative emotions of the staff. The
autistic person then re-acts to this and they are punished further by being
given even "more" medication. Even though you are violating the mental and
emotional well-being of that person you are also messing them up physically.
Or did no professionally responsible psychiatrist even consider this?
Over doing medication seems to be allowed to happen and one example of this is
the Thomas Rawnsley incident, where he mis-trusted the staff at his placement,
re-acted, got sent to a private placement, where he was abused and then ended
up in hospital where he was given such high doses of anti-psychotics that he is
no longer here to tell the sorry tale.
Or did nobody even consider this.
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