So if I'm feeling 'dangerous', and I go to the doctor for help, all he's got to offer is to put me back on drugs?
And if I refuse to take them (because my psychosis insists that they are poisonous to me), he'll get some kind of court order or something to force me to have them?
But how do they force you to take a drug? You have to swallow the thing in the end.
That's about the truth of it.
It matters not whether you are dangerous or not. The totally ambiguous pre-requisite of 'a danger to oneself or others' just about justifies anything being done to you by the psychiatric system.
Psychiatry is social control & powerfully coerces & imposes drug treatments on the individual; whether the individual likes it or not. People that willingly take their drugs don't see it. Try telling your medical team that you want a med free recovery & 'alternative' med free help, & that you are not going to take meds any more - & see what happens! - There is no choice or freedom in this.
I have been made utterly dependant on a med; through coercion & control.
At 17 I was sectioned & forced meds - held down & injected & made to take them. If I hadn't have played ball with taking the tablets; then they would have placed me on depot injections. I had to comply to get out of that place.
I managed to get off the meds that time when I was discharged. 4 years later I was back in hospital & I took the meds. I again stopped them on discharge. Then after another 4 years I was again sectioned & put back on meds; at very high doses. A year after discharge I came off the med; went totally crazy; which I think was a severe withdrawal reaction from the med, was sectioned again & refused the meds. I was then threatened with a 6 month section & depot injections if I didn't take them. & so I took them at a reduced dose.
Over the past 10 years I have tried everything I can to get off this med, stopping it another 2 times completely; & trying a lot of ways to reduce it. I believe that my mind is utterly dependant on this med, & that this med has caused severe changes in my brain structure & my brains chemical balance.
I have been forced & coerced into this situation - & I don't see what real choice I had in any of it? What real help do you get from orthodox psychiatry apart from meds? It took me 20 years to get 12 sessions with a psychologist! & I have been refused any more psychological help. I wanted comprehensive social & psychological help - I never got it; & I never will get that help.
What do I do here? I have been made dependant on this drug - I can't stop it because the withdrawal effects are so severe; & I do not have the social support or psychological help to get through the withdrawal. If I do stop taking them; then I get taken back & made to take meds. If I didn't take the meds I would be sectioned.
You now have CTO's, & much increased powers of psychiatry to enforce that people in the community take meds. Everyone I have known with the same diagnosis in the past (
paranoid schizophrenia); that has reused meds, have been placed on depot injections. I would rather, reluctantly take a low dose of one med than that.