The Guardian newspaper in the United Kingdom recently published an article about Acute Behavioural Disturbance (ABD) and also referencing Excited Delirium, which may or may not be the same thing – we might get on to that in a moment. The article “reveals” what anyone reading this blog will have known for over a decade: […]

A new Preventing Future Deaths report has caused me some consternation, I’ll be honest.  Issued by His Majesty’s Inner West London, the PFD notice follows the death of Roberto Bettello in September 2020 after he was detained under section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 and removed to an Emergency Department as a Place […]

About a year ago, Matthew Lennox, a mentally ill man entered St Joseph’s School in Slough, Berkshire in possession of a knife and whilst claiming to have a gun which had not be seen).  His presence there caused the staff to place the school in to lockdown, with classroom teachers locking doors and getting children […]