🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 9 months agoAnon's gf has unfinished businesssh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square14linkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down12
arrow-up17arrow-down1imageAnon's gf has unfinished businesssh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 9 months agomessage-square14linkfedilink
minus-squareGanbat@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 months agoIt’s UK slang. “For a person to be detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 against their will, admitted to hospital, and given treatment, if they are perceived to be a threat to themselves or others.”
minus-squaredaggermoon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoAh, I see. Thank you to my friend across the pond.
minus-squareGanbat@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoOh, I’m in the US, too. You can tell by the surgery I need but can’t afford. I looked it up on Urban Dictionary.
minus-squaredaggermoon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoSorry to hear that. I hope you get the surgery you need.
minus-squareIlovethebomb@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months ago having been committed compulsorily to a psychiatric hospital in accordance with a section of a mental health act. It’s a British phrase, I hadn’t heard it either.
sectioned?
It’s UK slang.
“For a person to be detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 against their will, admitted to hospital, and given treatment, if they are perceived to be a threat to themselves or others.”
Ah, I see. Thank you to my friend across the pond.
Oh, I’m in the US, too. You can tell by the surgery I need but can’t afford. I looked it up on Urban Dictionary.
Sorry to hear that. I hope you get the surgery you need.
It’s a British phrase, I hadn’t heard it either.