Emma said her family pushed for her father to be given anti-psychotic medication, but it was withdrawn a month later.<\/p>\n
After a failed attempt to take his own life, Don was put back on medication. <\/p>\n
“The medication was constantly changed up and down over the phone, even though I knew that shouldn’t happen. It was a constant battle,” Emma said. <\/p>\n
“They would say that my father had capacity because he dressed well. <\/p>\n
“We would say, ‘No, he’s not well’. <\/p>\n
“He’s accusing my mum of stealing the money from the house and they just ignored us.”<\/p>\n
Ten months after first showing the signs of psychosis, Don took his own life at the age of 78 in July 2019. <\/p>\n
She said one of hardest parts was that “my dad was totally savable”. <\/p>\n
“He was one of the biggest characters and one of the most humble humans,” said Emma. <\/p>\n
“He had the mix of every interplay of positivity in his personality. <\/p>\n
“I think seeing him as he was versus how he became is probably one of the most challenging journeys I’ve ever been on.”<\/p>\n
The family brought a medical negligence case against Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust and were awarded a six-figure settlement after a five-and-a-half-year legal battle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emma said her family pushed for her father to be given anti-psychotic medication, but it was withdrawn a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-699015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}