I peep around the door to the room they want me to enter. There’s 4 people sitting in there. I feel outnumbered. I walk away and think I can’t do this….
My husband encourages me in. I sit and they all introduce themselves. AMHP, AMPH in training, Psychiatrist and a nurse from the unit. They spend the next half an hour or so determining I did not have capacity and was at risk to myself.
I was detained but this time I didn’t need to go anywhere. I was already in lock up but this time I wouldn’t be leaving the building so easily to go on walks or visits to the shops with my fellow mothers in the unit. I would require two escorts with me to go for a walk. I was watched more frequently.
Psychologist and Patient 