From Mad in the UK: At the age of 41, I was sectioned under the Mental Health Act in the midst of the Covid pandemic in the early autumn of 2020 in the throes of an episode of psychosis. That was in fact my second stint in a locked psychiatric ward. Eleven years earlier a deeply damaging romantic relationship had coincided with a series of other stressful events and precipitated a manic episode, which then progressed to psychosis once I was trapped in the terrifying environment of the psychiatric ward.
I was desperately distressed and sleep deprived and traumatised from having had a whole team of male police officers grab me and force me – struggling against them with every ounce of strength I had – into a metal cage in the back of their van.
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