I was talking to someone today about NI and detention under the Mental Health act. Seemingly, you detain less people than anywhere else in the UK. Now I have my own theories about this, why do you think it might be?

@Amisja I wasn’t aware if this, no idea why that would be the case.

@Marionville I think (just a guess) that it something to with resilence and expectation that people look after their own.

@Amisja Couid be, but we do have a higher incidence of trauma and depressive illness due to 30 years of the “troubles” here. Maybe it’s because we have virtually no Psychiatrists here, less per head of population than England and there is a long wait to get referred to see one. Do you have to have certification by a psychiatrist to be detained under the Mental Health Act? Anyway we don’t have enough beds in Psychiatric wards as it is, so no point in making detention orders if there is nowhere to put them. I doubt very much that it has anything to do with people’s expectations being any different from that in England,

That is another, even bigger pond that the one I am on the edge of!

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Which one?

@Amisja How many do you know? I'm on the Isle of Wight

@ipdg77 yeah been loads. I know quite a few. I am from Lancashire. We don't have Islands but we do have Blackpool.