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Getting someone sectioned

  • 04-01-2018 8:29pm
    #1
    Mrself
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 ✭


    Can anyone give me any advice on getting someone sectioned? Said person is trying to be hospitalised, has gone to a&e , gone to gp, seen a psychiatrist. Has been violent ( is on bail at the moment) Is coming up against a brick wall as has no health insurance.


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  • #2
    Tilikum17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,324 ✭✭✭Tilikum17


    Mrself wrote: »
    Can anyone give me any advice on getting someone sectioned? Said person is trying to be hospitalised, has gone to a&e , gone to gp, seen a psychiatrist. Has been violent ( is on bail at the moment) Is coming up against a brick wall as has no health insurance.

    Ring the guards?


  • #3
    Mrself
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25 ✭Mrself


    Tilikum17 wrote: »
    Ring the guards?

    The gards cant do anything


  • #4
    Wesser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,813 ✭✭✭Wesser


    It is not possible to section someone if they voluntarily want to be admitted to a psychiatric institution.

    You can only section someone who is not volunteering to be admitted and is dangerous due to a psychiatric condition.

    All you can do is keep insisting.


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