Your Bands Best Spinal Tap Moment

[Bluewine]

15 hours ago, Si600 said:

Being sectioned is a horrible thing to happen to you.  The hoops to go through to get treatment and be released are convoluted to say the least.  My mum was a non-executive director on a mental health board for a while and the days they had sectioning hearings were the days the entire board wanted to be elsewhere.  You're stripping another human being of their dignity and liberty for an indefinite period.

Sectioned is horrible.  So is committed. I don't think process is any different over here.

 

Definitely not hilarious. 

 

Daryl

[Bluewine]

11 hours ago, borntohang said:

Comes from "detained under Section X of the Mental Health Act", where X is a different section of the Act depending on the reason for detention. I think you guys use '5150' for roughly same thing.

 

Yes, I think you're right about 5150.

 

Daryl

[chriswareham]

2 minutes ago, Bluewine said:

Sectioned is horrible.  So is committed. I don't think process is any different over here.

 

Definitely not hilarious. 

 

Daryl

 

Absolutely. I knew someone who voluntarily agreed to being sectioned, but was close to being committed without their consent. It was a battle for them to get out once they felt better, since a lot of people soon relapse.

[Crusoe]

My wife has the power to have people sectioned and sadly, had to use that power this week on a client. ☹️

[miles'tone]

On 04/02/2025 at 08:29, Franticsmurf said:

 

 

Second one happened to me in my previous life as a GITarist. The band I was in were asked to play as part of a multi band line up for a charity night at a large club. It had a lovely stage and between songs the curtain would come down so the bands could swap over. We played, it was good. We finished and as I went to get my little effects board, the curtains closed - behind me. Guitar and effects board in hand and in front of several hundred people, I desperately tried to find the split in the curtains. Did I achieve this with style and coolness? No. I flapped and swished the curtain, pulled at the folds, paced up and down the stage. Just me. Finally one of the band members opened the gap in the curtains to let me through. 

Proper Eric Morecambe moment there! 🤣

[Stub Mandrel]

22 minutes ago, Bluewine said:

 

Yes, I think you're right about 5150.

 

Daryl

 

And a Van Halen album too.