What you should know is that even the psychiatrist and therapists at Four Winds didnt think I needed to be force drugged. After I honestly answered his standard questions, the psychiatrist there said these words exactly, When in Rome, do as the Romans. Get your ass to a freaking ashram. He flat out acknowledged I was in the wrong place with the wrong system of thought, medicine, belief and practice for me. Yet the law allowed him to do 2 things: have me force drugged or find another place for me. If there was no easy and obvious place to send me, forced treatment would be inflicted on me-not because any doctor thought I needed it, but because there was no category for me, no protocol that suited my situation. And let me tell you from having been in that hospital and spoken to many thousands of people in a similar place, my situation or category was not uncommon. There were and are many people who have been traumatized, misunderstood, labeled mentally ill and force drugged, not because they have an illness of any sort, but because someone has a job and only 2 legal options-lock them up or have them involuntarily committed as an outpatient. I tell you this story on this day because the bill rushed through the House of Representatives by voice vote last week to patch Medicare regulations includes a highly controversial provision that has nothing to do with Medicare, and that would subject people in crisis to forced treatment. This bill is designed for people like me (and you, and any of us). It is designed so if you are at a low spot or freak out, or those around you think you are crazy for any reason, you can be court ordered to take a life threatening drug. You can be forced to have a mind imprisoned in shackles you would never choose. You can be forced to take a pharmaceutical that will make you die an average of 20 years early, likely give you diabetes and make you anxious, suicidal, exhausted, weak, stupid, impotent and/or dysfunctional.
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 23:01:11 +0000
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