 hey what's up guys it's been a while it's been a while hasn't it i've been away and i've been ill i have a hamster on me uh as always she's she's always here this is harrier to anyone who doesn't know we love harrier so i've been ill with um i can't say the word but i'll put it on screen and uh it's been hell i literally haven't been able to breathe properly but i'm doing better now so i thought i'd sit and film a video just because i haven't filmed for a while and i kind of wanted to talk about this subject because it's kind of relevant because to anyone who doesn't know last month i was hospitalized so today i'm going to be talking about when police get involved with mental health and i figured this would be a good subject to cover just because a lot of you guys know the police have been very heavily involved in my mental health both when i've been in crisis when i've made attempts hospitals etc i figured that it was an important thing to talk about because so many of us have experiences with police and mental health i'm using my phone using my phone torch as a line so police can be involved with mental health for a number of reasons the main one is if you are in a public place they can detain you under section 136 of the mental health act which is a 24-hour hold they take you to a place of safety that can be anything from a police station to a psychiatric hospital any somewhere that is safe because they've deemed that you are not safe to be out in the community and they take you to hospital for an assessment known as a mental health act assessment where you couldn't either go into hospital informally under this under a section usually section two sometimes section three or informally like i said which way you go involuntarily all they discharge you home to the care of a team of some kind now personally the police have literally saved my life on a number of occasions most recent being january um i was taken out the flat under the mental capacity act which is not the same as the mental health act and i was also placed on a section 136 i was assessed and i went into hospital voluntarily i did then get sectioned under section five but that's another story for another day so police can become involved for a large amount of reasons say bye everyone police can become involved with your mental health for so many reasons the most common thing i think one of the most common things definitely in my opinion is where people make attempts on their life if you attempt suicide in public chances are the police either intervene notice it's happened to me more times than i speak about the police have the power to protect and preserve life that means they have a duty of care police can become involved if a hospital has recalled you or it's been said you need to go into hospital and you've walked off police can become involved if you walk out of A&E or an appointment and people think there's a risk to you or others police become involved when there's a risk of safety so that can be due to mania that can be due to suicide that can be due to a homicidal thought it can be due to any level of risk if you present a risk and you're in the community everyone has a duty of care to keep you so and sometimes that means involving police and having police turn up is absolutely terrifying and having police prevent you from any life is one of the worst feelings ever at the time and believe me it's not as simple as they turn up and it's fine when you're in that mindset you'll do anything to do that and i don't want to go into details but i'm definitely someone who let's put it like this i didn't care that it was there i was determined to do what i was going to do i will say this the police have undoubtedly saved my life more times than i will ever be able to mention and i am grateful now looking back at it at the time i wasn't very happy but when you look back at it you're just like literally saved my life and it is it is scary when they get involved like i'm not going to sit here and be like it's fine you know everything's gonna be okay because that's just not reality is it the most common thing i've experienced with police is when i've been detained under section 136 and if you want me to make a video on what a 136 is in different types of sections let me know in the comments down below and i'll do that i'm still struggling with the after effects of covid when police get involved please try and remember that it's only in your best interest it's not people trying to get you it's people trying to protect you i know last month i was experiencing a lot of like deluded deluded thoughts and i was a hundred percent convinced that they were trying to keep me somewhere to do something to me and i got handcuffed to a bed and i sprayed my room my phone went off again mental illness is so much more complicated than people think it's not as simple as you know once you're there it's fine whatever you know having police around you and also having these intrusive thoughts it's really really hard to deal with and i'm not going to sit here bullshit i got lorazapand a lot because these thoughts were so much for me to deal with and it visibly made me agitated i've done a lot of things i regret when i've been in that state of mind and i'm not going to sit here and list everything i've done when you're ill you're and it's not an excuse to lash out and do things and do like act in certain ways but sometimes you genuinely don't realize that you're doing it and you don't realize until after when you're back on the mud how bad things actually got all i want to say is that on the whole police are there to protect you most importantly and sometimes when they whack the handcuffs on cuff you to the it may be like what the fuck not a criminal it's to protect you and keep you safe they stopped me leaving a a a lot i slipped my wrist through the cuffs which is why it's how it's brain death it's not that bad anymore i do have to wear a splint like most of the day but the night i can take it off that's a whole other thing his video again actually i had too much time on my hands and i didn't have a choice if i went there or not then the award i was on made me go to the hospital to get a trace they thought i'd broken something i didn't just brain down 100% my film like 100% my film but yeah i just wanted to say that on the whole police are there to protect and while like everyone i have had my first share of bad experiences with police i don't want to go into all that right now there are some good people out there and while i've lived in london i have not had a bad experience with police every police officer i've met has actually every police officer i've met down here has been helpful and has tried to help in them situations even when they handcuffed me there was like we'll take them off we'll take them off we'll take them off when you calm down like they were trying to reassure me the whole way through it yeah i did just want to make this video because i think it's an important subject and to say hello and that i'm slowly coming back to youtube i am still getting over covid so covid has really taken absolute everything out of me i'll do a life update video at some point but i wanted to make this video because i thought it was an important subject to cover and some reason i haven't covered it before so anyway i'm gonna stop filming and i'm gonna edit this video and try and get it up tonight this is gonna be fun bye everyone