My medical records

Once I had moved from being a teenager to an adult the majority of my medical notes all relate to my mental health for the most part. There are two diagnoses on their one being bipolar and the other being anorexia. At first, I didn’t like them being there as they are there for life, but as time has progressed I have come to be fine with them and am happy to talk actively about them.

Now going back to November last year when I was in the hospital because of what I had done I had to be seen by a psychiatrist to decide if I was fit to go home. The first two days I saw him I was just coming around from the coma and was thinking about that experience so was not really in the mood to chat to anyone as I was focusing on that.

Then on Monday, my personality changed and when I saw him we had a long discussion covering my past and the now and what I want to do. We talked for about an hour, well I talked at him and he sat there making notes on what I was saying. It was a good discussion and at that point, he considered that I would probably be ok to be discharged from the hospital and put into the care of the home treatment team.

Then Tuesday happened, and I woke up at that point not having had any psychic meds for about 5 days at that point. I was at the tail end of the mixed episode I had been living with and it then decided to mess with me one final time. Sending me psychotic and hearing voices, very paranoid and I was convinced that the ward I was on was not a proper hospital ward and that it was a sting operation by the police to…