Terribly difficult to get sectioned in the uk

[musicislife]

wont go into details but from recent experience it is terribly difficult to get sectioned or even admitted as a patient on a psychiatric ward in the UK

Anyone whose found this to be the case ?

 

[Anarchy]

I found it to be the opposite. It's way too easy. You can be sectioned for telling a professional that you have a plan of when to die. If you tell anyone that you have plans to die, and they report you, you can end up sectioned.

 

[Mr2004]

wont go into details but from recent experience it is terribly difficult to get sectioned or even admitted as a patient on a psychiatric ward in the UK

Anyone whose found this to be the case ?

I must have been lucky then

 

[Lady Lunafreya]

I told my GP when asked about my suicidal thoughts and they asked me:

-so are you going to do it?
-(Seriously, you expect me to admit to it point blank?) I said, no I don't think so.
-Oh, okay. Here's your prescription.

 

[sky7]

At the psych facility where I work, you so much as admit to having vague suicidal thoughts, even if you have no plan or intent, you get involuntarily admitted.

 

[Death]

Seems you have to do something drastic and end up in A&E to be admitted - although that doesn't always guarantee it in my experience!

 

[IG959]

There's been times where I've said after an OD when I was younger that I'll go out and do it again and they just gave me numbers and left me go. But then there was once when I said I was thinking of killing my self and they put me on a ward for 6 days and sent me home with sleeping tablets and antidepressants