Psychiatry

[Menelaus]

Do any of us think this might apply to any of us?

http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/mentalhealt...orders/pd.aspx

[MPwannadecentincome]

and what made you read this in the first place?

[HairyArsedBloke]

There isn't a single person that it doesn't apply to.

I've been told that it is used a lot to detain people when they don't have any other good reason.

[Zippy]

Yes some of it did/does apply to me, and I'm not going into it on here.

[xoggoth]

Clearly time for a "Who's been in a psychiatric hospital?" poll.

[Menelaus]

Clearly time for a "Who's been in a psychiatric hospital?" poll.

If that's an admission ... congratulations on being so open!

[Menelaus]

There isn't a single person that it doesn't apply to.

I've been told that it is used a lot to detain people when they don't have any other good reason.

I find it a worry that the new Mental Health Act gives the "authorities" the right to detain someone even though they're not acting in a way that makes them a danger to themselves or others or committing any crime.

[eliquant]

Wibble

[Menelaus]

Wibble

Why aren't you taking this seriously

[Zippy]

I find it a worry that the new Mental Health Act gives the "authorities" the right to detain someone even though they're not acting in a way that makes them a danger to themselves or others or committing any crime.

Well, quite a few on here wouldn't mind a return to Victorian values so I guess that's OK then?

In practical terms - hasn't it always been that you can be detained 'for the good of society'? (whatever the hell that means)