Consequences Of Being Sectioned

However i ve never been asked about this on entry to the us and they can t access your medical records to check.

Consequences of being sectioned. This is what it s really like to be sectioned a traumatic experience. The awareness of being deemed to require compulsory detention generates such negative attitudes as self denigration fear and unhealthy repression of anger. The law enables people to be admitted treated and held in hospital against their will as long as certain procedures are followed with the aim of getting them better.

Sadly though despite removing her from immediate danger andrea s various experiences of being. After being formally sectioned i had lost all sense of self and sense of dignity. If you are sectioned under sections 2 3 37 and certain other sections of the mental health act and your treatment is for your mental health problem and prescribed by your responsible clinician legally it may be given to you without your consent.

For 26 year old alika who also suffers from bipolar disorder a series of bereavements traumatic. The length of time that you can be kept in hospital depends on which section you are detained under. There are different types of sections each with different rules to keep you in hospital.

A 2017 report looking into the mental health act by the mental health alliance mha shows that more than 63 622 people in england were detained between 2015 and 2016. If you are sectioned this means that you are kept in hospital under the mental health act 1983. How will being sectioned under the mental health act 1983 affect my life in the future.

Certainly the mental health act 1983 is the major piece of law concerning the care and treatment of people with a mental disorder with some sweeping powers. They can do this for canadians. I think the connection with being sectioned is that by definition you were considered to be a danger to yourself.

Often patients and staff alike wonder about some of the wider implications of being sectioned. Stigma often stems from a lack of understanding and the act of being sectioned or detained under the mental health act is still something that happens behind closed doors with few people.