Re: Mental health disablities
By: MRO to Matthew Munson on Mon Sep 23 2024 04:44 am
> > I think people with unchecked schizofrenia should be required to go on
> > medical treatment, if they have a criminal record.
>
> yeah but you would have to lock them up all day to give them that treatment.
> and does medicine really help that issue?
I think this is not the offical position, but when I talk to psychiatrists and p
sychiatric patients, my hunch feeling is that a psychiatrist job is to make it s
o psychiatric patients don t piss anybody off and keep drooling on a chair at so
me corner instead.
Schizophrenics and depresives can sometimes be kept at a functioning state with
medication and therapy, but they have their highs and lows. Sometimes they go in
to madman mode anyway.
Regarding the question, you often see schizophrenics who are supposedly under tr
eatment at home, but are skipping their pills on purpose. I don t think you can
treat somebody who does not want to be treated without watching him too closely.
--
gopher://gopher.richardfalken.com/1/richardfalken
---
■ Synchronet ■ Palantir BBS * palantirbbs.ddns.net * Pensacola, FL
|
