So this annoys me because my major episode involved me being naked and the police being called on me.

They were *terrible* at de-escalation and I thought they were trying to kill me*.

* To be clear I don't think they *actually* were, I was delusional at the time. https://twitter.com/BDaveWalters/status/1283222748496457728

So after a while of being pinned to the ground handcuffed trying to fight against several police officers and swearing at them etc./generally making a scene I tired myself out a bit. In a moment of clarity I said this was probably a bipolar episode...

...I wasn't getting in their car and could they please call an ambulance.

Once the ambulance arrived I calmed down and asked the paramedics to play years and years on the stereo.

It was a rocky couple of days after that but once the anti-psychotics kicked in I was pretty much compliant and was back at work (at reduced capacity) two weeks later.

After a year attending the CAMEO service in Cambridge which is an early psychosis intervention service, I was pretty stable. I have not had a major episode since and have also been completely sober for over 4 years.

I guess the point of this thread is that black people have been shot at tweet #1 in this thread

Also I'd talked to my GP about my concerns about my mental health several times in the previous month and was at A&E the night before asking for medication.

But that's a different thread.