Performance...

We are out of our depth.

The mental health team had one answer and one answer only - take the meds so you can get back to your own life. The means to achieve the end increased Service User's anxiety, and created a different goal: The goal of compliance. This accentuated the importance of another goal, being able to act sane...to fool the mental health team. Service User was good at this...

I think he should take the SSRIs, I have no idea why he wont...
Or why he wont consider actively trying to do things to help himself get better...

Here is the question: When a person can act sane,or can act mad.
Why perform madness if you can perform sanity?
Service User's aunt can act sane.
She kept a job until the place she was working at closed..
She managed to convince her GP that she was fine...
If you can act it you are it...

There is an idea of triggers, that something in the environment (internal or external) sets the behavior off...

A person who performs sanity only when it matters to him.
Must therefore be able to chose to not perform sanity (madness).
Question: why chose to be mad?
Answer: when acting in a sane way doesn't matter to you....

Do you see the problem?
Or is this just words and language..

Yesterday, husband and I came back from the shops to find Service User, bare chested, pacing up and down the kitchen, whirling a hefty stick around...

We just said, 'oh hi.'
It was a lovely day so and I went out to cut the grass and husband followed with the sheers to clip the hedge. At that moment I realised how useful it was to have gone to a comprehensive school, where this kind of thing was always about to kick off...

Today we found that things have been broken
No surprise..