On August 29th Scott voluntarily admitted himself to the North Devon District Hospital, in Barnstable.
He is recorded as having been assessed in Devon as paranoid, thinking people were ‘after ‘ him and that he. was ‘unsafe’. He was ‘scared ‘ and had hired himself body guard to protect himself. They felt he showed pressure of speech, flight of ideas and delusions of grandeur,
He was transferred the next day to St Caradog Ward at Mental Health Services in Pembrookshire.
I assume his minder, Michael, dropped him off at the North Devon District Hospital, then dropped two of the dogs at a vets, as they were shipped to Rose on September 4th. I don’t know where the other two dogs stayed.
I suspect that one of the reasons Scott admitted himself was to escape his minder, who he decided was going over to the other side…becoming an enemy who wanted to take what Scott had. Scott felt that he had shared too much information with him. Scott shared this information with the St Caradog staff.
However, when Michael dropped Scott’s car off at St Caradog on the 5th, one of the doctors reported that Scott seemed relaxed and comfortable with him.
According to Dr Atkins’ report to the coroner, Scott seemed relaxed and comfortable unless someone asked about his fears. They tried to determine whether the information Scott provided was true or the result of paranoia and delusions of grandeur. This was a little difficult as Scott didn’t want to share information about other people who might be able to confirm who and what he was. He did eventually give them contact information for his accountant, who confirmed his claims of success and financial status.
Their initial impression was that there “was evidence of a psychotic mental disorder characterized by persecutory beliefs and delusions of reference. In addition we noticed that at times his over inclusive thinking led to him losing his train of thought, and that he remained guarded with and suspicious about medical staff.” They offered Scott antipsychotic medication, (Risperidone at 1 mg once a day) which he accepted.
Scott later said in his recordings that when the upped the dose to 2 mg he started experiencing the void memory issue which got much worse later. Before he checked out of St Caradog the dose was increased to 3 mg.
Scott remained at St Caradog, as a voluntary patient, for about five weeks. His own statements about his stay, in recordings he did on April 6th and 7th, indicated that he did not think the doctors believed his descriptions of his condition. He blamed that partially on the fact that he had not at that time been diagnosed as having Asperger’s Syndrome…he felt that if they had viewed him as an Aspie they would have better understood his actions. (The Asperger’s diagnoses was one Scott later did based on Internet research.)