Amy Winehouse Needs To Be Locked Up, Says Dad - Page 2
"You need all four—the psychologists, the doctor, the local health authority and the next of kin—all to decide that somebody is sectionable.
"Now is the time to exert whatever pressure we have to try to do it.
"I've told them she is a danger to herself. There is evidence of self-harming and she's a danger to other people because she's attacked someone."
And yep, agree with that, too. If she's attacking people because of her drug-addled state, there's a huge problem (although the courts in the UK seem to not care, letting her go with a slap on the wrist and a stern finger-waggle).
Shaken Mitch went on: "One of the reasons I came to Tenerife [on a holiday]Â was to get away from it all."If I was in England, I'd be around there and try to impress upon her the foolishness of her ways.
"During the week I nearly came home from Tenerife because she phoned me and said ‘I really miss you' and started crying. I got my sister to go and see her. She has clearly been through a very traumatic week.
"I don't feel Amy is beyond help. But unless she wants it, you can't force her to do anything against her will."
Mitch added: "Some of the things that Amy has articulated over the last weeks were that she wanted help. That's the first time she has spoken about it.
"But wanting it and actually doing it are two different things."
People can sometimes be reaching out for help and not even realize that is what they are doing...they are doing it in an unconscious way, a way which they don't fully understand. And yes...you can't help someone who doesn't want help.  What Amy needs to understand is that you can't clean yourself up for an event or another person or whatever reason...you have to clean yourself up for you, and you alone. Even if her father begins to practice "tough love" with her (refusing contact unless she agrees to treatment), at least it is a decision to do something to help her...much better than standing back and pretending nothing is wrong. Yes, it's very hard...and that is where she needs the support of her family.
He said: "Unless somebody is suicidal or they are a danger to other people—for example walking around the streets threatening to kill people—no one is going to section them. Continued on the next page
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