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Old 28th Apr 2008, 10:28
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Originally Posted by exeng
if a professional in this subject could give me some advice.
"This subject" should really be the field of neurology, with or without a significant psychiatric component. Can only agree that the impotence felt by parents in this situation must be quite terrifying.

Circumstances sometimes arise when individuals need to be compulsorily treated, even if it's against their will, either for their own good or the good of others. Lay people often refer to this as "sectioning" because many years ago the procedures used were set out in different sections of the Mental Health Acts.

Poorly controlled epilepsy is always a difficult one, especially when functions on many days outwardly seem relatively normal. I presume that this person is not licenced to drive, still less to fly ! Yet the episode of falling onto a live railway track during a fit really does raise the stakes dramatically on the subject of compulsory assessment and / or treatment.

Good luck, whichever way you decide to go !
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