Was nearly arrested last night.

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I understand you are at your wit's end.

What sort of hospital is this? How do they treat you?

I know you wish you had a sympathetic ear. I know the feeling all too well.

Have you contacted any of your friends?

Make sure you appear as "sane" as possible when you see the ward psychiatrist.

Sweet Pea hugs

Thank you both.

It is a general adult psychiatric ward. The autism / LD ward is male only for some reason.

They're looking for autism specialist supported housing for me as according to the staff I need round the clock care.

I am worried I'll get kicked out of uni, although if I do, I'll throw the Equality Act 2010 at them.

I think working from home will be my future.

Staff here are great.

My friend knows I'm here but he's in Leeds so he can't visit.

I had two bad meltdowns today. Seriously I'm struggling to control them.

They're talking about me going on risperidone. As haloperidol is not ideal.

Seeing as you're 'making sense' of your stress levels and are clearly a devout pharmacology student, then I would say it could be another wake up call for mental health services.
Unfortunately, I've already done all the letter writing which had been passed on to random hospital wards and the outcome is the same. The way the funding is at the moment, you would be lucky to get any type of social housing, but would be entitled to some free home support I guess, if you are alone at home.
A befriending scheme is supposed to be good, but you may be on a waiting list.
Good luck.

Sad, but true.

SteelMaiden, I'm sorry to hear you're having such a terrible time. I hope things get much better for you.

You know, I'm the first one to point out the s**t job police do, but I gotta say I saw the awesomest thing I think I ever saw a cop do on the news yesterday and it made me think of this exact thread.

There was a autistic High School boy who started having a meltdown and ran out of the school talking about killing himself. When the police arrived, the officer sat with the crying young man for an hour, just sitting right on the ground in the parking lot next to him trying to talk him down and did so successfully.

Just wanted to make that point because it's only fair. I'm about as anti-authority as someone gets, but that was truly a great thing.

I'm getting funding for autism specialist supported housing soon. And I'll be getting an increase in one of my disability benefits. I'll also be given housing benefit. The NHS has saved my life too. I would never be able to pay for my health care.

Well I'm glad I don't live in America then.

And please don't call it s**t. You make it sound like I was having a hissy fit. The truth stands that I was having a severe episode of challenging behaviour and was near delirious.

I would speak to the police and make them aware of your autism ahead of time and make them aware of how to deal with you when you are in a meltdown. If someone is ignorant of your specific challenges and how to react to you, you need to inform them. If police were to be called to your address your autism diagnosis should be on file for the responding officers with a note on how to handle the situation if possible such as not yelling as that exacerbates your meltdown endangering your safety as well as theirs. Make it clear that you have very little control of yourself in such situations.

I am really sorry for what you are going through

Who-ever designs the protocols for the police are the ones who need to be corrected. Hopefully some wisdom gets through to these people soon so that incidents as you've experienced can be avoided in the future.

hi, the ward psychiatrist might be better than average, might be below average, or might be approximately average.

but in any of these three cases may be pretty pressed for time.

So, think about leading with the most important thing first. For example, maybe: I have been at 90% stress levels for weeks.

And then maybe the one or two almost as important things.

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And good luck with everything. We're all pulling for you here at WrongPlanet!

With the police handling you in a very physical fashion, I'm sorry. And if you think you got concussed, you probably did. It does get better.

Alright, the standard advice includes both physical and cognitive rest. And yes, this second part rather surprises me, but there it is.

Maybe go to bed just a little early. And maybe tomorrow a brief afternoon nap in such a way that it doesn't interfere with nighttime sleep. And perhaps go a little bit easy on the electronics. I say, as long as you avoid the marathon sessions, that is probably enough. (One study found that as long as teen athletes avoided being in the top quarter as far as cognitive activity, they recovered right in the average range. And I think the top quarter was just a little slow in recovering.)

So, even if you're not able to do any of this, even if the hospital is not exactly the greatest environment for resting, you will recover, just might take a little longer.

Good luck with the support you need. It is absolutely doing you no good to go through episodes like this in which you harm yourself (like, being concussed).

Make sure any plan you develop does not leave you at the mercy of your mother. I'm a mother myself, I don't play the "blame the mother" game, but it sounds like she exacerbates your symptoms.

Thank you all.

I've made some progress but I'm still struggling.

Staff here are mostly good. Psychiatrist doesn't like his patients though.

I will ask the police to put it on the PNC that I'm autistic. That's a great idea. As it's definitely not the first time they've been called for dealing with me for meltdowns.

I've been sleeping a lot due to heavy medication.

Miss I am sorry to hear this. The hammer thing would of been serious where I was picked up. Those officers would not hesitate but to shoot because they have. So please if you have a meltdown and the cops show up empty your pockets and drop whatever you have. Im afraid of the police because as people said they are not really trained for mental illness. I was totally cooperative walked in the ambulance and those a holes left cuff marks on me that I can still see on one of my hands and I did not resist. Next time this happens I would call a friend or a family member to help come over and calm you down then possibly get help. But the law yeah around here jail would of where you would of ended up. I mean I live in the states but the hammer would of done it showing force with a hammer would give the cops a hard on for slamming you over and over react. I was held gun point for bow fishing in that area on public waters in regs and they still acted like they wanted to shoot me even with the bow unstrung as they came up on me.

recently, i find sleep to be my most effective therapy. not only due to being conscious, the heavy blanket i use and my small couch provides a comforting, cozy restraint.

how do you feel about sleep?

I will try not to do the hammer thing again. I understand how dangerous that was. I was completely out of it due to melting down though.

Sleep helps me too. I would rather read though. But I'm struggling to focus.

I'm stuck on this psych ward inappropriately. But the other ward I would have been better off in is male only now.