(UK) Mental health: 'The only hospital bed was 248 miles from home'

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This happened to me once, I got sent all the way to the east of England. I’m originally from just off skirts of London

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Psychiatric beds are scarce everywhere.

:frowning:

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In my first psyche ward it was about a 100 miles away from home. My parents drove me up there then visited a week later then a few days later picked me up and drove me to Soteria House which was only about 10 miles away from their apartment.

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A trip to the state hospital here involves being shackled and flown on a commercial airlines (with two guards) to a city 350 miles away! It’s absolutely ridiculous how scarce psych beds are in this state…

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