As a teenager I was forced to take my medicine. First by policemen and then by my mom. I eventually gave into taking it because my hallucinations were terrifying and my mood bad. Now I’m on next to nothing, well, I think it’s next to nothing! Another thing: I got in the habit of painting everything rosey to my pdoc so I wouldn’t be hospitalized. Nowadays it’s like: doctor I’m going to kill people and myself I need to be committed. And they say, no, you can’t go to the hospital. Lol, that’s an exaggeration, just joking, but you get the point. The last time I was hospitalized they asked me am I homeless? What if I was homeless? Shouldn’t I still be treated? I live in the USA. Have they closed down all the mental hospitals in Europe too? Well, it’s good for me but I’ve known people who need caring for. I can only hope they got into one of the few left open!
Most medical stays are expensvie and take a lot of space and resources. Yeah it’s a hard system for most these days but there are some decent benefits to community care. Even with a semi social healthcare system it’s hard.
Yes, I was forced haldol various times without any legal proceedings. I was finally forced to take my initial Invega injections by a judge. I stayed on invega and it’s what ended my symptoms and eventually led to delusions fading, so probably a good thing.
No, I voluntary take medication it is advised I take them
I got forced meds quite a few times against my will
I was never forced to take meds I chooed to take my Clopixol depot injection 27 years ago because I had faith in this meds and that was after olanzapine and Risperdone had stopped working. And that’s the only drug I trust will keep me safe from positive symptoms. In my country you can only get court ordered for five consecutive years. And that would mean I could have stopped the depot five times which I never did.
No because I’ve always taken my medicine. I’ve been off it before on drs recommendation but that’s it.
For a long time I was just on antidepressants. But then they started putting me on antipsychotics even though I didn’t have the sz diagnosis.
But they always took me off meds every so often. I’d end up back in the hospital and on meds.
Now I know I will take them for life. I won’t let the dr take me off them regardless of my dx, meaning if they change their mind that I have sza. I don’t want more visits from Satan and his demons and APs make that go away for me
I do agree with you zan. Me likewise.
I’m from Europe and there are plenty of mental hospitals here in Belgium. I was forced to take meds in the hospital, but I never made an issue of taking them.
It’s because the pills don’t work like they say they do. At first you are a ripe new candidate, then after treatment when you start to deteriorate then you longer are seen as fit for their “treatment”.
I’ve been tapering off mine and realized all my treatment did was rewire my brain to be dependant on a pill I never wanted to be on in the first place. I have all sorts of health complications and it’s not because i’m schizophrenic, it’s because of the big fat list of side effects caused by the medications. :\
And yeah I guess I was forced into taking them. All my admissions were involuntary.
I was court ordered to take meds for six months
Initially I refused and they didn’t force me.
Then I eventually agreed to try it.
In a way, yes.
Before psychosis, I was pretty much vehemently opposed to medication, to the point I rarely even took aspirin and the like.
Just didn’t want that stuff in my body— didn’t want it to change me, didn’t want the side-effects, just didn’t want any of it.
Got sent to inpatient and they pumped me full of Zyprexa my first time round— no questions asked about medical history, family medical history, no mention of any side effects either.
Just, “here, take this and shut up.”
If anyone’s seen the masterpiece that is Happy Gilmore, it was essentially a “you’re in my world now, Grandma “ moment.
I think that mental hospitals are awful places to be in.
The conditions are terrible and these places attract sadistic people.
If I can help it I’m going to try my hardest not to go into another one again.
Easier said than done though.
That barely exists where I live.