The Drs.

Amazing, he got an appointment. The police had said they would be checking the surgery, so perhaps they had and...so...down the road we went.

Both of us in the consulting room. The doctor appeared to be pretty good at listening. ExService-user very able to put a lid on the paranoia.

After I gave her his history, and she said that it would be best if the Home Visit team came to visit - because they are experts...I experienced the all too familiar thought of; why bother? Which bit did you not hear, which bit do you want me to repeat (and do you want to hear the recordings?). It was taking Citalopram and then stopping that helped exService-User under the bus.

But from my point of view, it was the bullying tactics of the Home Visit Team that set the tone for this whole, sorry tale.

No, we are not having the 'experts' in.

We left with a prescription for Citalopram.

But I see the punitive value of real world, and real world consequences as the best medicine.

ExService-User talks a lot about how the police are after him, so a visit from real police, far from confirming his paranoia drains the energy from the madness.

The doctor likewise. A common sense reminder that no matter how angry you are, biting people is the way in to a police cell...