Calocane had ‘reasonable insight’ into his illnesspublished at 10:41 BST
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Thangavelu said Calocane had “reasonable insight” into his symptoms and treatment.
He also recorded that Calocane felt “aggrieved” and that the Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) team had a “low threshold” for admitting him to Highbury Hospital.
Thangavelu said in notes from a ward review that the killer accepted his first admission was “rational”, but the others were not.
It was put to Thangavelu this was not consistent with having insight. Thangavelu said: “I was not basing it on one discussion.
“What I was mentioning about the insight, the way we understand it’s not an all-or-none phenomena and it’s not static.
“Recognition of symptoms, perhaps linking it to those symptoms, and attributing to a condition – most patients with mental health problems actually fail on the third.
“It’s not something you see clear-cut in patients. They may be holding back their guard, but in other conversations they might say the voices were bothering me and so on.”
Thangavelu said Calocane did not have “good insight”, but he “was able to recognise some sort of experience he was going through”, although he could not recognise it was psychosis, the inquiry was told.