Thanks again all.
She's in until Thursday as a voluntary patient. Today's meeting was fairly positive @Determined. Us making a strong point last night that we felt she wasn't safe at home was a big contributor to her admission.
On a lot of points, we're in reasonable agreement with the MHS psychiatrist, but we really want better guidelines in place for when Older Daughter should be considered "in danger", and a more consistent approach from the MHS team in general. Among other things, but they're the two biggies for keeping her safe.
There are some problems which are basic infrastructure failings that we won't be able to do much about. There's not enough funding for MH in general, so the local clinic hasn't really got the option of therapeutic or even "safe house" admissions. They're at capacity with crisis admissions, and that undermines their ability act as a safety net.
Also, now that our viewpoint as parents is "in the loop", some of our suspicions about possible missed avenues in diagnosis have enough credibility that they're going to investgate them.
Am still very concerned about how close to critical things got yesterday. Will be watching how it all pans out to see if things improve.
@Former-Member, self care is a hard call at the moment. Because we're still a bit under the weather, we can't exactly take ourselves off for a refreshing day out. It would be more tiring than it was worth. Will have to work out how we can be gentle on ourselves in the middle of all this. (I did buy frozen fish fillets for a very easy dinner tonight- little thing but it helps.)
Re. advocacy and explanations, the psychiatrist was pleasanty impressed with how I explained a few concepts to our daughter during the review meeting. Which leads into another thing we're pointing out- that it seems she sometimes doesn't "get' the reasons behind various therapies, and she may need to be talked through their purposes and benefits, more so than has been happening.
