Freedom of Choice
Well there has been a bit of a change in the works. I was expecting to go home the other day but I was told it would be one more day. Then the next day when I was expecting the doctors to be having a ‘discharge’ meeting with me they said I had to be moved to the hospital. There they they wanted to put me under the mental health act and put me on medications. If I wanted to dispute it I could call upon a section 16 which means that my case is heard infront of a judge at an informal court and he will decide if I get to go home or not. I waited around for 3 more days (unmedicated) for my court case. My major argument for why I shouldn’t be held there under the mental health act is that the law stipulates that the mental health act will only apply if there is a strong reason to believe that I am endangering my health or someone else’s health or I am not able to take care of myself. I have clearly demonstrated that I am fine to look after myself and am not endangering myself or anyone else. I explained my ‘delusions’ to the judge that I believe that personal information is being distributed about me through devices that are held in people’s cheeks by a network. He said that from a clinical psychological perspective this would seem like a delusion. He also said that for this reason, if it was not dealt with now I could be a danger to my future self because I have an illness that I will have grown with rather than dealing with at a young age. I am outraged at this decision. Even if it was a delusional state, the fact that I am living as an ‘eccentric’ in ‘isolation’ should be my own choice as long as I could look after myself and was not endangering myself or other people. So now I am forcably being plucked from my surroundings and forced to be locked up in a hospital and forced to have medications that I am strongly opposed to. It has now been nearly 24 hours since my first dosage and I have spent 18 of those hours in bed. All it seems to be doing is making me incredibly lazy. Definatly not the life I want to be leading. As far as I can see it, what is going on here is god damn criminal. And I urge anyone with any ability to make it stop does so. I am not happy here. Love from, Jamie
