sectioned

People can be detained under the Mental Health Act - or sectioned - for their own safety, or the safety of others.

Her loving husband's personality was decimated by dementia and he was finally sectioned in 2020.

Mrs Macpherson told the BBC her daughter's mental health issues began when she was a teenager, and she was sectioned aged 17.

She said he had been sectioned four times in recent years and was currently being kept in a secure ward at the Highbury Hospital, in Nottingham, after attacking two children in a park.

Documents showed he was "acutely unwell", and was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and sectioned four times in less than two years.