Facebook Fridays are live sessions where CEO Simon Kitchen or media ambassador April Kelley tackle a topical theme related to bipolar.

This week (6 August 2021) Simon explains being detained as a compulsory patient under section and covers the following topics:

1. Types of section
2. Information resources
3. Research into reform of the Mental Health Act

If you or someone you know is sectioned you still have rights to

• Ask for papers
• Have access to an advocate
• Challenge a section decision 
• Be made aware of a local solicitor/legal aid
• Be kept safe in hospital