Minors with mental illness

[Little Lo]

i have a friend who has a son of 17 years old and has schizophrenia. The staff where he is being treated have today informed his mother that he has been transfered to a different hospital and has been sectioned as he hit a member of staff last night and they have told her that she will not be allowed to see him until they say it ok. His mother was there on a visit before the incident and said that he was very calm and seemed fine. She thinks he may have been provoked.
What can she do now?? She would like her son to come home or at least be transfered back to where he was. Is this possible?? As he is only 17 would they not have needed his mothers consent to move him anywhere?? Please could someone help with this matter

[daffy654]

I don't have an answer for you but you may be able to find the info you need here:
http://www.mind.org.uk/Information/Legal/OGMHA .htm#Admission_for_assessment__section_2_

[bednobs]

there is to be honest not much she can do except wait til the section is up and hope he has recovered enough for him to go back to the facility he was ordinarily in. Unfortunately, mentall illness, as with pphysical illness can be very unpredictable, therefore things can be okay one moment any not the next. He does not at the moment have the mental capacity to decide things for himself, and there fore the health professionals have a obligation to make decisions for him that are in his best interest. When someone is being sectioned, it is a medical AND legal thing, so no consent on any part is nesacarry, thats the whole point about sectioning.
ordinarily, when he does regain mental capacity, 17 is too old to have someone consent or withold treatment on your behalf so mothers consent is not needed

[Mamjet]

Unless you're serious considering that staff at this place have nothing better to do than 'provoking' young schizophrenic patients, then you must come to the conclusion that she is in some sort of denial and her son is, indeed, in the right place.

What can she do now? Well, she SHOULD leave the professionals to do their job and care for their son. If she tries and gets him out ('cos he was fine wen I saw him!') then she's endangering herself and, more importantly, me. I she wants to wake up with her head in a fridge, fine, but I want to keep my brilliant brain attached to my body, not sliced off by a ski-mask wearing, chainsaw wielding 17 yr od nutter with a **** for brains mother.

[randyraven]

"""Mamjet
Wed 23/04/08
09:28 Unless you're serious considering that staff at this place have nothing better to do than 'provoking' young schizophrenic patients, then you must come to the conclusion that she is in some sort of denial and her son is, indeed, in the right place.

What can she do now? Well, she SHOULD leave the professionals to do their job and care for their son. If she tries and gets him out ('cos he was fine wen I saw him!') then she's endangering herself and, more importantly, me. I she wants to wake up with her head in a fridge, fine, but I want to keep my brilliant brain attached to my body, not sliced off by a ski-mask wearing, chainsaw wielding 17 yr od nutter with a **** for brains mother. """"

mamjet ....Have you ever considered joining the Samaritans ? You would be great on phone.

[Goodsoulette]

Hi little Lo, I have a cousin who is schizophrenic. He was diagnosed at a similar age and its a rocky road until they get the medication right. He would seem fine and then he could be violent, he could be fine and then he would be self harming. I know this isnt exactly what you want to hear but he may have been provoked, but that provocation was probably something normal.

I have seen my cousin provoked because he thinks the cake he has just been given has been poisoned.

Mental health facilities are severly stretched, be thankful they haven't let him slip through the hoop. Although this seems like a nightmare at the moment, it will get better. They are doing what is best for her son.

[Mamjet]

Basically what I said. Keep him locked up until he's better. Even after he's out, you won't find me standing in front of him on a busy train platform.