My brothers getting sectioned under the mental health act What to expect?

My brothers getting sectioned under the mental health act What to expect?They are sending police and ambulance around to the house later on today to section my brother?
He knows nothing about it.. does anyone know what I can expect to happen please? Im really nervous about it all not to mentions soo upset?
Anyone have any experiences they can share?

Thanks

Answer by pm0006
The best thing you can do is stay out of the way. This is likely to be a traumatic event for your brother and possibly also for you. Just let the police and ambulance people get on with their job. The important thing will be to help your brother recover, visiting him in hospital regularly talking to him and listening to him. The police and ambulance people will show up, they will read the grounds for sectioning him, explain that he is now sectioned and will take him away in the ambulance. There is a chance that they might sedate him too, though that would hopefully be unlikely.

Answer by Kat
I'm so sorry to hear that. I can't imagine how that must feel. I'm certain your brother may feel a combination of fear, anger and confusion over being forced into a mental health care facility without his consent. Obviously it has been deemed by doctors and a social worker that this is for his own safety as well as the safety of others around him.

I would say prepare for the worst, hope for the best. I don't know what his mental state is right now. Is he prone to fits of violence? It may be a very disturbing thing for you to witness, especially if he becomes very afraid or lashes out physically. My best advice would be to let the police officers and hospital staff tend to him as best they can. They may try and restrain him and administer a sedative if he becomes very upset.

Your brother will be treated no differently than any other person in the hospital (in other words, he won't be treated worse or like a criminal because he's been sectioned), although he may not have certain privileges as patients who are there on their own volition. For example, he may not be permitted to check himself out of the hospital or leave the grounds without his doctor's consent. That is for his own protection.

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