Is there any way of protecting yourself against psychiatric treatment?

Question

I'm actually asking this because I think psychiatric practice can be abusive and I think there should be ways of helping people resist it; I would like to know if such a way is possible, through law or something like that?

Answer 1

If you need the treatment why protect yourself against it? There are many sub-divisions of psychiatric problems. One could divide them into patients who have insight into their disease, that is the patient who, realising that they have a problem, seek help. Most but not all depressives tend to do this. The other division would then be patients who are in-sightless, having no understanding that they are ill they do not seek help, indeed their response to the suggestion that they are ill might produce paranoid feelings that those trying to give aid are out to get them! This can occur in all types of psychotic mental disease.

Trying to avoid treatment suggests a patient in the letter group.

Answer 2

yea, kill yourself

Answer 3

not if u need it

Answer 4

YES.  You just have to decide that this way is really not the best way for you.  I agreed to it once and was treated as a 'guinea pig' for a drug that hadn't been licensed.  I collected it from the hospital pharmacy under a number, not a name.  It was the worst time of my life. It made me more mentally ill than I was before.  Mental illness is terrible, and if you haven't been there, don't dare to comment on it (I say that to other YA readers).

Therapy can work, but in the end I realised that the only person who could help me was me.  That's not psychobabble, it's true.  So I worked long and hard at it, I went up and down, up and down, etc but I stopped drugs, I stopped therapy.  It was hard, but very well worth it. I hate psychiatrists.   They think they understand you, but in fact they are totally clueless.

Answer 5

the only way you will recieve psychiatric treatment is if you need it so why would you resist it ??????????????

Answer 6

  Don't give them any information to work with. Seek a self-help program. Deal with your problems through education.

Answer 7

Make sure that you dont need it in the first place.

Answer 8

I have seen some crazy psychiatry doctors one that was treating a family member .

Answer 9

Just Say No?

Answer 10

don't go.

Answer 11

If you're talking drugs, don't take them.

If you're talking about therapy or behavior modification, you only get out what you put in. If you don't make an effort, it won't work.

Why are you "protecting yourself?" If you are receiving treatment, I would think you needed it. Did you not make this decision on your own?

It's not working for me, but that's because deep down I don't want to get better. We are trying to find the reasons for that now.

Answer 12

Well, I wouldn't advise to do such a thing, but you can be resistant and not open