 Hey what's up you guys, welcome back to my channel. If you're new here, hi here, I'm Lydia and if you are new here, make sure you hit the subscribe button and join the growing family. Today I want to talk about the trauma of being hospitalised under the mental health act. So first of all, what is the mental health act? The mental health act is a piece of legal documentation and powers where they can detain a person who has a mental health condition for either assessment, treatment. Personally I've been detained under section 136, 52135, section 2, section 3. But Kara and I was doing my absolute heading, right on my brain as well so please bear with me in this video. So why is the mental health act traumatising? That's the question I'm going to answer in this. For me it's traumatic because you lose all your rights basically. You don't get a choice in the matter. Ah, relaxing. This is the rest of the money I've ever spent. Mine is going to be on my new camera. So anyway, why is it traumatising? It's traumatising because you lose all your rights. You're not treated like a human being. It's treated like you're a caged animal. You have no control over what's going on. You can't refuse medication. You just have to take it or they inject it. It's just very dehumanising the way you're treated and honestly it's just you're being held captive. The thing I remember is I got really worked up trying to get out of the wall because I was getting so stressed by everything going on and I was hearing voices telling me to leave that I actually managed to get out the first door or locked so I was just in the middle of the room. And for that I got injected with lorazepam and teleperidone which knocked me out cold for like six hours. I don't know, it's just it's such a hard thing to go through. The first time I heard there was Leo entertaining you under Section 2 of the Mental Health Act was the worst day in my life because I'd never been in a hospital. I didn't think anything was wrong and I got admitted to an abusive ward but there was no escape for me. I couldn't discharge myself because I was under Section and I was a minor. As someone who's been detained under the Mental Health Act over a fair amount of times I can say that each time it was just as traumatic as the other and honestly sometimes it just wasn't that. The longest I've ever been kept in hospital was a year. I lost a year of my life and honestly I'll never get that time back and what gets to me is they over-medicated me because I was easier to control than I was sedated. Fucking siren. But that year I will never get back. I remember on my birthing I wasn't that steady on my feet because of all the medication. My grandma had to hold me, hold me in my one arm and my sister had the other arm. Health and new wall. I had Leo on my birthday and my family came down to see me because the hospital I was in was in Titus which is in Sussex and my family live in Shropshire so it's quite a way to try it. They bought their doggies. I can't remember a lot of what we did so that's fun. When I was made informal I immediately tried to discharge myself because I couldn't stand how those treated me. I got put back on a section, well section 5-2 then I was assessed again and I was put back on to a section 3. It was the worst time of my life. The use of the mental health act is definitely overused. Some people get sectioned that don't need to be sectioned and honestly it's just really upsetting really when you think about it because it's there for a reason. It's to give treatment to those with mental health condition that don't recognise it as the condition. They just think it's normal. Or someone who's suicidal or stops on from ending their life. Most of them don't. Then there's the cases where there's actual suicides on boards. That's a whole other video. But genuinely I feel like it's just used too much. The trauma that the mental health act has caused me is stuff I'll never recover from. Mainly because of all the abuse that goes on inside boards and if you are interested in what abuse goes on inside boards I did a two-part video which I'll link up there about how psychologs have mistreated me. But yeah I'd love to know your thoughts and opinions on this subject so let me know in the comments down below. Thank you for watching and I'll see you on my next video. Peace.