I have just the mental health team on the phone, they have advised they are going to section my dad under a section 3 and they are looking at doing this tomorrow morning.
I feel sick as a pig, I am so stressed out!!!!
I am not going to be there, I cannot face it.
I feel so sad for him. I am heart broken................
If he accepted help it would not have come to this, poor fellow
He is going to go mad!!!
Angie, your dad's situation sounds almost identical to that of my dad nearly two years ago. Although he realised he was having difficulties with some things, he refused to accept he had Alzheimer's (even after diagnosis - I think, even then, he was failing to understand what was being said to him) and would get very angry at anyone who said he did. He lived on his own, and for about 9 months I was getting phone calls almost every day about some incident or another - from neighbours, police, his solicitor. It was a nightmare.
Finally, he was sectioned after he was spotted at a local petrol station in his dressing gown and pyjamas. Paramedics 'rescued' him, took him home, and then 2 doctors and police were called to section him.
He was taken to hospital, from which he escaped - twice! But we found a care home willing to take him, and after 2 days, that's where he went. Despite all our concerns about how he would react (given he'd been insistent that he was fine, and that none of us had dared broach the subject with him of a care home!), he didn't bat an eyelid, and seemed to accept it all straightaway.
He has been in care ever since. In that time, he's not once asked to go home, where he is, why he's there, etc. Perhaps I have been exceptionally lucky in that respect, but I wanted to let you know that (a) sectioning isn't necessarily a bad thing, and (b) it might just all work out for the best, in ways you can't imagine at the moment.
Even if your dad reacts very differently, please know that this is the right step for him. Many other TPers on here will tell you that - while sometimes the actual sectioning process may be upsetting, if the PWD doesn't want to accept help - then the assessment process which then follows often results in a far better outcome for the PWD and their loved ones than might have been achieved otherwise.
Try not to worry too much - easier said than done, I realise! Your dad will be in the hands of professionals, and he will be safe from this point on. Hang in there, and think positive thoughts. Good luck.
