Subj : Mental health disablities
To   : MRO
From : Arelor
Date : Mon Sep 23 2024 03:44 pm

 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 psychiatric patients, my hunch feeling is that a psychiatrist job is to make it so psychiatric patients don t piss anybody off and keep drooling on a chair at some 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 into madman mode anyway.

Regarding the question, you often see schizophrenics who are supposedly under treatment 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.


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