Dealing with hypochondriacs

Mr-White said:
You can get sectioned for being a model ? :eek:

MW
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And that just goes to prove the stereotyping.
I was the youngest person in the ward at age 30 and the oldest person was about 80. It was about 6 men to 4 women.
There were lawyers, bank managers, athletes, pianist from an orchestra, headmistress and other professional people.
I know it doesn't fit what you're told but those are the facts.
 
Crowort said:
It might have been different in Dimples time but you don't get people sectioned. Only two doctors can do it.
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That's exactly what happened. It was a Sunday morning and my wife, Mum, Dad and In-Laws came walking in with a Doctor who questioned me and I was taken up to A&E where I was questioned by another Doctor. For some reason I walked out of the building without anybody seeing me and about 1 hour later I was surrounded by about 20 cops in Hartshill Cemetry where I was put in an ambulance and taken to a Mental Hospital.
 
Dimple said:
That's exactly what happened. It was a Sunday morning and my wife, Mum, Dad and In-Laws came walking in with a Doctor who questioned me and I was taken up to A&E where I was questioned by another Doctor. For some reason I walked out of the building without anybody seeing me and about 1 hour later I was surrounded by about 20 cops in Hartshill Cemetry where I was put in an ambulance and taken to a Mental Hospital.
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I guess I see it differently. Your family got you help and the doctors section you because they believed you wouldn't take it without being forced.

My story is pretty different in that I was an patient voluntarily just to get my meds changed. I had a paradoxical effects to the new pills and ended up worse than no treatment (most likely) Tried to run away got hit with an emergency section (might have been more than one here my memory is foggy about a lot of this) then a month one then 6 months. My mum went to the court rulings and tried to stop them. She was worried how being sectioned might effect were I could work or something.
 
I used to suffer from health anxiety. Little anyone said or did, even professionals, reassured me for long.

Unfortunately, the only way I got out of it was by helping myself. I eventually came to realise I was wasting my life. I started thinking of all the people much worse off than I, with real problems, and I decided to make the most of the health I had.

The biggest problem and probable root cause I had to overcome was using the internet to self-diagnose. Even the most trivial of symptoms typed into Google will give you results of cancer and other terrifying diseases. It was by actively removing myself from medical websites/forums and even TV that I had the biggest improvement to my anxiety.

Sorry that doesn't offer you much help OP, I wish there was some magical phrase you could use to make them snap out of it, it would certainly of helped me a few times. Unfortunately though, it's not that easy. :(
 
I am a mental health nurse and you can get someone sectioned against there wish but
There has to be grounds for which it should done done E.G. If the person is a danger to
Themself or others.
 
nearly as bad is my grandma who wont tell anyone ''because i dont want to worry you'' when shes rather quite ill considering her age and other medical condition's

shes struggles on when there is loads of use who are happy to help. it will kill her...
 
Monserrat said:
Yeah, I work at a psychiatric hospital and we have a ward that caters for anorexia / bulimia. This branch of psychiatry is called eating disorders.
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At Cheddleton (which you must have heard of) the anorexia/bulimia ward was Britannia ward or ward 14 with not a single teenage girl in sight.
When I was sectioned I asked where they all were and there wasn't any.
Amazingly the head nurse (who was male and helped to save my life) became my best mate and played in bands with me up until 2000 and we still see each other.
There is a good chance you may have been given a lecture by him but I don't want to say his name on here.
 
Dimple said:
At Cheddleton (which you must have heard of) the anorexia/bulimia ward was Britannia ward or ward 14 with not a single teenage girl in sight.
When I was sectioned I asked where they all were and there wasn't any.
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I don't know how it was then but now a days teens tend to go to wards only for young people. While I was in a mixed teen ward it was about 50/50 boys/girls for eating disorders. In adult mix wards it was all women but that doesn't mean much.

Feel like were taken this totally off topic sorry OP.
 
As mentioned by many, she should probs see the doctor regarding health anxiety although I know that's easier said than done. I went through a bad batch of it this year, mother died around Xmas and work as a radiotherapist so it was a case of a cough or pain and I convinced myself I had cancer.

All in all help is out there you just need pointing in the right direction and a good GP can do that.
 
My wife's two grandmothers were an interesting contrast. The one had absolutely nothing wrong with her but sat around all day complaining about her health and everybody who helped looked after her. She led an unfulfilling life and died miserable. The other one actually had cancer, beat it, and right up until the last was a happy-go-lucky person who led an incredibly rich life and made everybody around her happy. Not one complaint was heard - even when she had a whole bunch of health issues hit her at once.
 
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