No hospital, no doctor, would accept just anyone off the street, no matter how out-of-control, floridly psychotic, without the recourse of being able to quickly administer medication without either permission or court order...If you walk into an ER, and they believe you have an impaired ability to make decisions, they will treat first and ask questions later.
i just want to say that's not exactly true- while human rights for psych patients do completely suck, i was just inpatient at mclean during a manic episode after a suicide attempt and i successfully refused everything [antidepressants and antipsychotics] but benadryl for sleep for the entire week. as craptastic and human-rights-abusing as hospitals can be, the situation is not nearly as "one flew over the cuckoo's nest"-esque as it once was- at least not in massachusetts. this is due to the extreme hard work and dedication of patient's rights groups such as M-POWER [www.m-power.org/]- (not NAMI though as they strongly support pro-forced medicating and hospitalizing.)
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Date: 2007-09-16 02:35 am (UTC)i just want to say that's not exactly true- while human rights for psych patients do completely suck, i was just inpatient at mclean during a manic episode after a suicide attempt and i successfully refused everything [antidepressants and antipsychotics] but benadryl for sleep for the entire week. as craptastic and human-rights-abusing as hospitals can be, the situation is not nearly as "one flew over the cuckoo's nest"-esque as it once was- at least not in massachusetts. this is due to the extreme hard work and dedication of patient's rights groups such as M-POWER [www.m-power.org/]- (not NAMI though as they strongly support pro-forced medicating and hospitalizing.)