Help for mentally ill persons and their relatives
Source: BUS Rheinland-PfalzAssistance for mentally ill people aims to cure the disease, prevent its aggravation and alleviate symptoms of the disease. They are intended to enable independent living and social participation. Necessary assistance should be coordinated and agreed with the mentally ill person and their legal representation according to the individual need for treatment, participation and care.
The aid is also intended to relieve and support people who are closely related to mentally ill people as relatives or in other ways.
For adequate care, support and assistance services in the areas of prevention, treatment, housing, promotion of participation and care should be available close to the community.
If there are strong indications that a person is mentally ill, the Social Psychiatric Service at the Mayen-Koblenz Health Department (Tel.: 02632 251628, spdi@kvmyk.de) can be contacted first. This service offers appropriate help and advice and can also make home visits on request. These services are accepted on a voluntary basis, which may prevent a mentally ill person from having to be compulsorily accommodated.
However, if there are acute signs that a mentally ill person is seriously endangering themselves or others and this danger cannot be averted in any other way, the public order office control center (Tel.: 0261 129-4567) or the police (Tel.: 110) should be informed immediately.
It is the task of the Public Order Office to place mentally ill persons who are acting against their will in a recognized psychiatric facility if they are a danger to others or themselves within the meaning of the State Act on Assistance with Mental Illness (PsychKHG).
For this purpose, a doctor consulted by the Public Order Office must first certify that there are urgent reasons to believe that the person has
- a psychosis,
- a mental disorder that is equivalent in its effects to psychosis, or
- a dependence on addictive substances associated with a loss of self-control.
As a rule, mentally ill persons are accommodated in the Rhein-Mosel-Fachklinik in Andernach. Mentally ill children and adolescents are accommodated at the Johanniter Center for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Neuwied.