As someone with a history of mental health issues who has received forced treatment by family, i beg to differ. Healing started once i got out of the social circles who were trying to force me to be not have problems and i found people who would accept me (mostly) for who i was. I am now much better, no thanks to forced help.
Healing comes with acceptance, enough acceptance will lead to the person with problems to start noticing how their issues are cause problems and then seeking help on their own becomes available.
My heart breaks over how limited the supply of patient acceptance is in society; how few people are even willing to try to demonstrate a modicum of empathy for what people with mental health issues are experiencing
Thank you for saying this. As a Psychologist, standing up for the rights of patients - who are ‘disgusting’ and ‘different’ - is a difficult task. When people don’t conform, they are not treated as human. They are problems to be dealt with. It is disgusting.
Forcing mentally ill people into treatment isn’t harm, it’s helping someone incapable of helping themselves.
I’m a Psychologist.
Have you seen how patients get treated on mental health wards?
That’s not an argument to not treat them, that’s an argument to make treatment better.
As someone with a history of mental health issues who has received forced treatment by family, i beg to differ. Healing started once i got out of the social circles who were trying to force me to be not have problems and i found people who would accept me (mostly) for who i was. I am now much better, no thanks to forced help.
Healing comes with acceptance, enough acceptance will lead to the person with problems to start noticing how their issues are cause problems and then seeking help on their own becomes available.
My heart breaks over how limited the supply of patient acceptance is in society; how few people are even willing to try to demonstrate a modicum of empathy for what people with mental health issues are experiencing
Thank you for saying this. As a Psychologist, standing up for the rights of patients - who are ‘disgusting’ and ‘different’ - is a difficult task. When people don’t conform, they are not treated as human. They are problems to be dealt with. It is disgusting.