When it is your first psychotic episode, where one typically has no idea about the real world anymore, the only way forward is for someone to step in and get you back to reality.
They may give you an unsuitable antipsychotic initially, but that’s life they have to do trial and error with the antipsychotic until one is found that the patient can tolerate enough
And most importantly, actually have a chance of recovery.
No ones like me to say it but ill say it: better a month forced treatment than 8 years in a criminal mental hospital
Yes the loss of the real world is real…
had a 6 months long phase where I was completely absorbed into my own world and voices. When over, I walked outside and noticed that the world was going on without me… was a really hard reality to face… still cannot get over it. Felt like those 6 months lasted years and that I am losing time off my life and not fully living. It is terrible.
Aw sorry to hear that
Yea I lost quite a lot of time to psychosis too.
I’m against forced treatment. The systemic ways people act and treat others need to be critiqued not accepted with apologetics. In this country first nations people are mistreated by health workers, and the health workers have all sorts of justifications for what they do (including forced sterilizations). It is inexcusable on the level of race and ethnicity. Mentally ill are another category even though they can be of any race/ ethnicity, but forcing treatments on people and the way those are justified is just allowing for systemic abuses. The proper reaction anyone should have to hearing someone’s inviolable body was violated is that shouldn’t have happened what can be done to change it.
In addition to that comment I remember a short disagreement I had in a women’s studies course I took as elective one summer. The professor was talking about how sexual assault is caused in part by attitudes people have, for instance, that someone deserves it because of how they are acting or what they are wearing. This relates to victim blaming, as even someone who doesn’t commit the act will commit additional harm by saying it is their fault. I argued that this is a systemic issue way larger than attitudes towards women, but at the time didn’t mention the specific example of mental illness. The type of reasoning that some treatment is deserved, and someone can be blamed for what someone else does to them is a bug or fault in human reasoning and it should be shown no tolerance when the inviolable body is involved.
One time I talked to this influential female writer in a bookstore. Then I was watching “Firing Line” three weeks later, and this woman was on the program, talking about a book she had just written titled “Stopping Psychiatry”. She was saying, “Now look, I was presented to this person who had known me for all of five minutes, and that person had to make a decision about whether or not I was going to forcibly lose my freedom of movement.” I didn’t watch the whole program, but the woman did seem a little off when I talked to her, but that was probably the heightened sensitivity of a creative person. I hope they didn’t destroy her creativity with psychotropic drugs.
Saved my life. Can save a lot of lives.
Scoop laws now.
Just saw this. Permanently blocked for advocating genocidal practices.
Being blocked by you means I’m doing something right. This just made my day.