So, for those that have read my posts regarding my daughter and her MH.
She has been held under section 3 (up to 6 months) in the Bradgate unit. She was released from that section after 4 weeks and agreed to remain voluntarily and would agree to any support that was put in place for her as long as she continued to present as being well and recovering.
Fine.
She has been voluntary for 3 weeks and assessed as progressing well by the psych team and they were considering allowing her a phased discharge with support, back to her home.
Over the last week we have been getting messages and VM's from her that clearly demonstrate to us that she is still suffering abnormal thinking, still seems to have psychotic episodes and is not well.
We have contacted the ward twice to express our concerns about her MH. They said it would be taken on board and discussed during the next ward rounds and we would be contacted. No contact came.
This morning my wife had a call from daughter where she was screaming incoherently at my wife, followed by a string of texts expressing her wanting to kill herself, she doesn't deserve to live, she won't comply with the law and will stab anyone who annoys her, she will stab us if we go near her. That the Government are complicit in her being sectioned. That she will be on the rail tracks when she gets out. And more besides.
We phoned the ward to alert them about her thoughts and the risk we felt she posed to herself and others. They said they'd pass this on to the psych team. This was about mid-day today.
Just now, tonight, we got a message from her to say she'd been discharged and was back in her flat!!!!
No support in place. No contacts for her to get support from. Her beloved cat is in a refuge that no-one seems to know how to get him back to her.
Phoned the "crisis" team, they'll pass our concerns on to her MH team.
It's a ****ing SHAMBLES. And no one seems bothered.