I am an Australian. You must NOT take your loved one to an ED if they mention they have had suicidal thoughts. You simply cannot trust that they will be treated

I am an Australian. You must NOT take your loved one to an ED if they mention they have had suicidal thoughts. You simply cannot trust that they will be treated with respect and dignity. Two and a bit years ago I was having suicidal thoughts. I had an episode and left the house in distress, but eventually arrived back home where my wife comforted me and my suicidal thoughts went away, and yet I was ripped from my bed and taken to hospital where I was thrown into a seclusion room for five and a half hours. There is no clinical documentation, I’m not in the seclusion register, there was no explanation given, I wasn’t assessed until hours later someone turned up, said I was fine and not only did I leave the room - I left the hospital! The authorities do not care, they leave you powerless, stripped of your dignity and autonomy and in some cases your life can be at risk. The following review was done last year by the NSW Chief Psychiatrist and it is absolutely damning: http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/patients/mentalhealth/Documents/report-seclusion-restraint-observation.pdf http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/patients/mentalhealth/Documents... I have been trying to get justice and answers for two and a half years. I went to the body who is meant to investigate these matters after the health service denied I was even in seclusion, they did nothing. The Hospital has now acknowledged I was in seclusion. They have literally just now started to find out about my lack of clinical records it’s, but they don’t think they’ll ever find out who threw me in that room. I now have severe PTSD, completely distrust the medical profession and will never speak of suicide to any medical professional ever again, and I strongly believe that anyone who does so takes a grave risk of being abused or mistreated by uncaring “professionals” who act more like jailers than carers. Certainly an ED is the very last place you want to go to - they simply do not care about depressed or suicidal people and you will almost certainly be thrown into a psych ward. Your rights will be servely curtailed, your decision making ignored and removed and it can be very hard to get out of such places.