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‘Concerns over the prescription of #clozapine for people diagnosed with “BPD” in private locked psychiatric units’ tinyurl.com/2p9akujp

Important. Clozapine is frequently thrown at people whose cases are seen as hopeless without a full range of interventions having been tried
Many people are diagnosed with PD and left languishing for years in assessment and treatment units meant for a few month stay. I hear of clozapine, yes, bur also people kept in restraints all day.ALL DAY. Levels of abuse are high, families nearly always too far to visit regularly
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This is a frequent cause of AFAB suicide, as recognised by INQUEST. Many of us can generate the names of the dead without pause for breathe. We must not only campaign furiously on this but ensure the move from PD to CEN doesn’t erase the complexity of this group even more
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