I received a letter this morning from the local mental health team with the date of my assesment which is good and what I have been waiting for, However I feel like a fraud because when I asked for my GP to refer me I was in a complete state and extremely depressed and suicidal, I now feel ok and like I'm just cycling through moods and that I could wake up feeling fine or wake up dreadfuly depressed and suicidal.
I think what is really bothering me is that the place I have to go for my assesment is an actual locked mental health unit, thats not to say that I will be locked in thats just how they do things for the safety of their sectioned patients, in the letter it stated that I am a high risk out patient and that it is important that they see me as soon as possible (I would no longer class myself as high risk and if I am classed as high risk why have I waited this long?)
this is all really getting to me because I hadn't really though about the fact that this is a proper mental health assesment (I have never had a proper mental health assesment) and that if they feel I am a risk to myself they can have me sectioned, the thought of being sectioned scares the hell out of me even more now because I know it is a possibility.
I don't know what to expect, I don't know how to tell my family what is going on and I am really concerned
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