Escaping the NHS mental health system
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- 4 Feb 2024
After being trapped in the mental health care system for three years, swimmer Alexis Quinn attempts to flee the country. Here, she ...
I said, Look, what's the problem? And they said, There's a marker being put on your passport. We need to contact the English police. I said, I'm an escaped psychiatric patient. I'm going to be honest with you. I've escaped a mental hospital. I have a diagnosis of autism. I showed them some paperwork. I showed them the pictures and I said, I was being abused. I was being held for no reason. Please let me go. I'm being honest with you. You can see. And they got in contact with my dad, and they got in contact with the English police. And they said, there's no legal law for them to hold me. And they took me back up to the plane, put me on my seat, and they let me go.
And I just cried and cried. I don't know what the person next to me must have thought, but I just cried and cried, and I was finally free.