Slowing down

My husband was worried about the fact my Psychologist had been in touch. He contacted my care coordinator and she started to increase her frequency of visits.

Below is an extract taken from the Progress Notes (I requested my medical records this year):

— sounded low in mood, speech was slow & processing appeared slow too. She was displaying some psychotic thinking, medication is poison, is worried that the government is watching her, driving to work she is being followed.

This was worrying my care coordinator particularly as I was adamant about not taking the medication even though it was a 5mg dose. She started visit weekly to check in that I was taking the medication and monitor my mental health.

I later found out through reading through my medical notes that the Psychiatrist put a request through for a mental health act assessment. It terrifies me that this happened in the background and could have become into fruition. Thankfully my care coordinator could see there were no grounds for this and was able to stand up to this. Despite our therapeutic relationship at times being strained, I was grateful for her ability to go against a Psychiatrist.

This is what the Psychiatrist had entered onto the system:

We need to be realistic with regards to what I could offer to alter negative trajectory of worsening relapse.

I am recommending MHAA due to reasons I explained in my last email to you and if AMHPs are not in agreement, it’s fine but they would need to consider my rationale and have this discussion/outcome documented on —

Based on your findings recently documented on — on the 13th of May, given past and recent clinical histories which collectively spells out the unlikelihood of patient resuming with psychiatric medication, further delay in hospital treatment in the absence of active perinatal psychiatric specialist input, could result in further deterioration in mental/physical health on patient and her unborn baby and the illness becoming more difficult to treat (poorer prognosis), please request for MHAA.