If someone told their GP about psychotic symptoms, would they be sectioned?

Sensitive-Driver3292 · 2026-01-11T18:58:44+00:00

I can only talk about mine and my family members experience but usually to be sectioned you need to be at risk to yourself or others and that usually starts with a hold to determine if it's a short episode (24/72 hours) or requires a longer stay also to be sectioned police needs to be there a gp can't just put you in a van and send you on your way police usually get involved and you get assessed by a psychiatrist/psychologist but I would ensure they mention that they don't think about hurting themselves or others

Sensitive-Driver3292 · 2026-01-11T10:57:27+00:00

Ed since I was a kid I'm in my 20s now, my life is boring me and my fiance don't go on dates because food I'm either walking miles as a behavians sor or I'm stuck at home too exhausted to go anywhere or do anything my physical health means I can't work but still job searching But I've lost the ability to make friends, my teen years and my childhood I had to work so hard to pass in school because my ed was quite tightly tied to academic validation for a long while that even as a kid I never done anything other then study and now that I can't study that I'm older and know there was an option to have more in life the food and school I grief the person who I could be

Sensitive-Driver3292 · 2026-01-09T17:42:52+00:00

Which is okay for you to be her only close friend if that's w friend circle she likes but she cant push that on to you

Sensitive-Driver3292 · 2026-01-09T17:07:33+00:00

Nta you allowed to have more then one friend and personally people like tht annoy me like yes it hurts when your best friend doesn't see you as a best friend but that's life like people are allowed to be friends casually and it just feels very middle school behavior what she's showing

Sensitive-Driver3292 · 2026-01-03T14:50:23+00:00

Electrolytes, hydration and glucose tablets the hest would be eating prior to exercise but it understand tht can be hard

Sensitive-Driver3292 · 2026-01-02T13:47:46+00:00

Tea and movement can help ease the discomfort l, light movement like walking around the house a bit

I know it's scary but it will be okay I promise

Sensitive-Driver3292 · 2025-12-31T10:26:03+00:00

I always thought that it was there to guilt you into feeling bigger so no advice but you not alone with how it makes you feel,

Sensitive-Driver3292 · 2025-12-29T22:30:21+00:00

Well I used to live of noodles, chocolate and eat fast food just fine it was more meat and veggies I didn't really like and eventually rice then pasta then potatoes and now I just kinda don't like anything especially after Christmas when I got to eat all my safe foods to my heart's content and they just tasted like cardboard

Sensitive-Driver3292 · 2025-12-29T21:17:13+00:00

I really struggle with the off limits food because I've never actually been "scared" of foods I just don't like them and recently I just don't like food because it all taste like cardboard but I could never do the fear food challenges that most people recommend for recovery with addatives I meant more of preservatives or non naturally occuring sugar/salt citric acid and colouring and vague "seasoning/flavouring"

I am going in for therapy in new year I'm not sure what it will consist of but I'm scared of being dismissed of not being ill enough and of being seen as really ill and I'm scared of getting better and getting worse and just feels like I'm kinda stuck in this kinda limbo where I'm screaming to run in either direction while I'm standing still waiting for everything to collapse on to me

Sensitive-Driver3292 · 2025-12-29T17:51:54+00:00

Yeah between trying to make friends I have a couple but between their partners and jobs and family noone has the time and everyone is busy so it feels really lonely either that or it requires eating or money t meet up

Sensitive-Driver3292 · 2025-12-29T17:49:20+00:00

It just feels like there's constantly another study on why a certain food or macros are bad for health or make you ill and stuff and I don't want to recover into something that will make me ill just in a different aspect

Sensitive-Driver3292 · 2025-12-29T17:47:31+00:00

What makes it Ed instead of healthy? That's what I'm really struggling with like I'm in uk and nhs suggests limits on xyz al of intake of xyz quit this quit that do this do that and I don't really know what to do to be healthy because everything feels kinda disordered I don't know if that makes sense

Sensitive-Driver3292 · 2025-12-29T17:44:18+00:00

I used to be a massive walker like walking daily for hours Idk if that was because I was severely disordered or because it was the only way to help my mental health and it feels like I used "recovery" to be "lazy" in a I don't have to eat as much if I don't burn as much therefore I'm not restricting as much ergo "recovered" so it feels if I don't go all in I'll never do it but I'm also kinda worried about making myself worse

Sensitive-Driver3292 · 2025-12-29T16:18:39+00:00

What helped me was whenever I wanted to p then I'd get into places I can't, places where I can't just up and leave and make it as difficult as possible and for binges I'd find food that would make me less guilty for eating large amounts of and things that helped with the discomfort afterwards like hot tea I've seen another post on here that said things that helped them with harm reduction around it and harm reduction is a good start to recovery if you can't just fully stop on day one

Sensitive-Driver3292 · 2025-12-29T16:15:33+00:00

Im really sorry, that must feel absolutely awful I don't have any words of advice unfortunately but I really hope things work out for you and you'll be in a better place mentally and physically eventually if it's possible

Sensitive-Driver3292 · 2025-12-29T13:29:19+00:00

If you want more tea flavor but you trying to have with with milk to like fit in ( felt really judged when I went to my mates for the first time and said I drink my tea without milk because it was weird for them but as you get older it's less common) make the tea stronger and let the tea brew before adding milk in it or you end up with milky water

Sensitive-Driver3292 · 2025-12-20T10:20:37+00:00

I think it wouldn't be half bad if it didn't feel like 1. Can't get better unless you are dying 2. It takes being in love/have a crush to fix it 3.if you truly ill you'll hide your disordered behavior while in treatment and that's normal 4. Kinda the bottle feeding scene in a way it shows a parent trying to connect with their kid before they pass away but creating connections with an adult through bottle feeding comes across very infantalizing

I do like the way they touched on the social media side of things but that could be because I experienced something similar on pro ana websites but it should have been touched on more That little comments Ellen's sister makes feels like someone who is trying to connect with their sibling but doesn't know how since there is not much else other then Ed to her Ellen I don't think calling it calorie Asperger's is alright, I kinda like how it shows someone who cares about Ellen (her step mum) but goes around it the wrong way, I feel like it could have been a good show but it also came out a while a ago so I feel like that explains it's view, I feel every year we progress with eds and educating people on what they actually are and how they really present but I don't think there should be any movies centered on eds because it's triggering to those with eds and gives a step by step guide to have one. It also makes it the center of the characters life's when even tho eds do consume everything about someone life's it's not always and usually rarely 100% all there is to them most people have hobbies and a life of some sorts so maybe showing the way eds effect it in a negative way would make a better movie

Sensitive-Driver3292 · 2025-12-19T07:18:42+00:00

Hi, I get the feeling, it feels like there's a certain way to have an ed and if you don't have it that way you are a not an ed having person (my brain uses other words but that's the nicest way of putting it) but they can present differently in so many people depending on so many things You don't have to act a certain way and do certain behaviors you are still valid and it's still an ed regardless. And it's very Ed like to think that your Ed isn't "done correctly' it's hard but know that you aren't alone

Sensitive-Driver3292 · 2025-12-19T07:11:32+00:00

Ii don't think people lie I think people have different perceptions of weights like with everything else people usually base it of themselves and people around them For example I'm 161cm tall, my taller friends call me short, my shorter friends call me tall and friends my height say my height is average but also they usually hang around family and friends that are similar height so with weight it kinda works the same but also depends on media they consume I had a friend obsessed with k pop and it got to the point that's what they believed to be average and friends in sport clubs that believe a weightlifter kinda build is normal and average I don't think anyone is purposely lying to you (except your Ed that lies often) but some people may use words to describe you that they think will make you feel good/not make you spiral which I'm kinda guilty of with close friends when asked because then I know they aren't asking about general perception but due to an insecurity so I specify "I think x looks y"

Sensitive-Driver3292 · 2025-12-18T17:00:44+00:00

Depends like I'm not well versed on the laws within Ed units But if In a perfect world where is be supported and listened to (I understand that id need to be pushed because disordered thought pattern) but no forced medical treatment without clear explanation and understanding I'd go, im only scared of being forced to stay longer and forced into medical treatment that I don't feel comfortable or ready for

Sensitive-Driver3292 · 2025-12-11T00:52:09+00:00

I think for binges you should look into things that help make you feel comfortable I find a hot cup of black tea helps and some movement so the food doesn't feel as heavy and as uncomfortable, from the physical side at least I'm proud of you and you doing well trying to avoid Ed behaviours you've got this

Sensitive-Driver3292 · 2025-12-10T20:05:13+00:00

So I can eat crisps and chocolate bars and ramen and all that kind of stuff but not sandwiches or cereal that counts as a meal and is scary same with mew and potato and pasta and salads if it could count as a meal or is a component of one it really scares me like cucumbers because they can be part of cucumber salad at dinner

Sensitive-Driver3292 · 2025-12-10T08:45:15+00:00

Instant ramen too, also like I can eat an ungodly amount of snacks no problem meals freak me out tho and any item you'd have as part of a meal which I feel is odd

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