 Hey what's it you guys welcome back to my channel if you're new here hi hello I'm Lydia and I make mental health videos here on YouTube, I do vlogs, I basically can share every aspect of my life. Today I wanted to talk about police and mental health. Like if you know me you know I've had quite a lot of involvement with police because I'm my mental health. If you don't know me then that becomes a surprise. Easily they've saved my life more times than I care to mention. I'm going to put a trigger warning on this video just because I'm going to be talking about suicidal attempts. So if you're going to trigger both to fight that please click off the video, watch one of my other videos. I've got loads of videos. So the first ever involvement in police and mental health I had when I was in Preston which is an anchor area in the UK I had a psychotic episode in which I thought I was being told by a man or by. I was in a park right about to jump off a bridge and then this man appeared and I just ran and then the police showed up and asked what was wrong and I said there's a man chasing me can't you see him psychosis and they placed me under a section 136 the mental health act which at the time was a 72 hour hold. Currently it is now a 24 hour hold that the police have on any person who they think is struggling with mental illness. They take you to a place of safety which can be in a mental health hospital, general hospital, police station. Now I am lucky in the sense I've never been taken to the police station under the mental health act so that's a big bonus. I have been in a police station but not for that. Why are you please getting involved in mental health? Isn't that down to the NHS? You would think the NHS would do something to help people with mental health crisis but the best we get are crisis lions and let me answer a brief clip of what happened to me when I called a crisis lion. So yeah I got a hunger palm. A hunger palm by the crisis to you so I don't call the crisis to you anymore. If you want to see the whole video again I'll link it in the description down below. It's actually one of my most popular videos. So police get involved when you're outside. It can be in your infelix they can get a section 135 warrant or outside is a section 136. Now I've been on both. I've been removed from my flat possibly by police. They literally picked me up so yeah I leave an exciting life. I haven't had any police involvement since February this year. They only got called because I walked out of hospital when I was going to be very impatient. I walked out when I needed to get some clothes and police after me. I made it home and got my clothes and a few other things like my unicorn. Yeah I don't know who my unicorn is. My unicorn is my emotional support stuff animal. I take it everywhere with me even to uni. My unicorn comes everywhere with me because it's a cop fighter. I've been on that tangent yeah. Police get involved when you are risked to yourself or others. If you're suicidal, if you're self-harmed in hola it will mean the risk to yourself. If you're psychotic they can take you to a place of safety. Can I just say the lack of police fans are the most uncomfortable things in the world. But there's no seatbelt. So if that thing crashes you're going head first into a fucking metal wall. Met police fans have cameras and microphones so they can talk to you. But police get involved when no one else is there. A crisis team could call police. A health player known as shout which is a text meant to help find here in the UK on screen. Check them out. They're actually quite helpful. They can always save your friend with you and they only call police if you are going to kill yourself or you're too psychotic to function. Police imagine how this is a subject that I want to cover and I want to talk more about because police take more calls than they actually have to relate to mental health. So it's an important topic. I can share my experiences of being on a one-d6. I've only ever had that experience with police officers once. I believe the police have been very helpful actually when it comes to mental health. Well when they take you to A&E they have to stay with you and at other times I'd already acted on my thoughts and taken them over those. So they have to take me to A&E but they have to supervise. If you have any questions about police and mental health please leave them in the comments down below and I will happily answer them in the video. I will come back to this subject and I've been a bit sort of on my experience with police and mental health but if you want to know more let me know and I will see you in my next video. Peace.