Monday 22 April 2024
Hallucinations & the Mental Health Act
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I’ve recently read Oliver Sacks’ excellent book Hallucinations. It contains a wide range of accounts of different medical conditions that ...
Monday 8 April 2024
Is Diogenes Syndrome a Mental Disorder? A case study
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Harry is a man in his late 80’s. He is divorced and lives alone in his own home. He has a number of physical health problems associated wi...
Monday 1 April 2024
The weirdest mental health law you’ve never heard of
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(Here's the text, but it's worth watching the video for pictures of puffins) The Mental Health Act has been evolving over many dec...
Wednesday 20 March 2024
Is being a vexatious litigant a mental disorder? A case study
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Norman was a man in his early 50’s. He came from a fairly wealthy middle class family, was educated in a public school, obtained a degree ...
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Monday 11 March 2024
How to get off your section
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So, you’ve been detained under the MHA, and you want to get out of hospital. Based on my decades of first-hand experience here a few hints...
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Monday 4 March 2024
What's the worst day to be sectioned? A Christmas Day MHA Assessment
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Back in the1980’s, when I used to do out of hours on call duties, Christmas Day was generally considered a good shift to have – you got do...
Monday 26 February 2024
Green Lycra and Fairy Wings: Arrested for attempted murder, is Stella mad, bad – or completely innocent?
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I was at the CMHT when I got a call from the Criminal Justice Liaison Nurse. He had been asked to see Stella, a 62 year old woman in the l...
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