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‘I had to be sectioned’: the nurse who became the patient
Rachel Davis draws on her personal experience of deep depression and psychosis to help educate her peers
Rachel Davis’s experience as a former patient in an inpatient setting is informing her role as a trust’s peer support lead for other healthcare professionals
- The writer’s experience of being sectioned under the Mental Health Act (1983) is now informing her role as peer support
- Vicarious trauma is described as a process of change resulting from empathetic engagement with trauma survivors when caring for them
- Symptoms of vicarious trauma include stress, burnout and invasive thoughts about patients’ situations outside of work
A mental health career felt like the obvious choice when I was deciding on which branch
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