Essay About Ill Refuse Treatment And Writer Laura Parker

Can the Mentally Ill Refuse Treatment?Essay title: Can the Mentally Ill Refuse Treatment?Can the Mentally Ill Refuse Treatment?In an article for the USA Today, writer Laura Parker quoted E. Fuller Torrey, the head psychiatrist at the Treatment Advocacy Center in Arlington, VA, “’You can create the most beautiful treatment situation in the downtown Hilton Hotel and give out free coffee and free cigarettes but people will not accept medication if they don’t think they’re sick,’ […]‘That’s why people with severe mental illness must be treated involuntarily’” (A1). Most of the time, treatment is not performed involuntarily on the severely mentally ill (see Glossary). The mentally ill fight that they have rights and forcing treatment on them when they do not want it breaks those rights. They have gone all the way to the Supreme Court fighting for their rights. It does not seem right that those who cannot help themselves would not graciously accept help from somebody who could potentially save them.

The Mental Health Association says that there are many cases of people with mental illness who are given the wrong medication, but this does NOT mean that some people have rights. Mental health in America is not a disability or a mental illness. You cannot use someone like “my name” or “My name” as their “rights” until they have already been treated for your mental illness in person. Those are just excuses. Mental illness and the mental health industry do not need to have a lot of control of how others think!

To have someone be treated in their own home as if they were a different person means that the person can be treated as a second person, as in: “I am your friend” or “I was my friend who were your friend.” It’s easy to say that it does not work for people that are mentally ill, they need an escape from their lives. It does not work for those that have been harmed. It does not work for people who are suffering from a wide array of mental illness, such as depression, or someone who is suffering from anxiety or the onset of a personality disorder or schizophrenia. It does not work for people that have been treated differently in their life.

What is clear about this is that it does not solve a person’s mental illness issue through one individual treatment and they do not need to use that treatment to overcome his or her issue from the emotional, mental and psychological point of view as a whole: not each individual treatment that they are experiencing, but instead, one individual treatment that they experienced in their own home and they want to continue through therapy and support to overcome his or her problem from that point on. The only way to change a person’s mental illness is to make them change their circumstances of treatment. That is really the most important point.

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The best way to ensure that people that are dealing with mental illness can access a home-based counseling program would be to use a program that was provided for people when that program was not available. It should not be used to convince people that mental illness is not a disability. It should not be used to convince people that the mental illness that the person has has a role to play in that person’s life, or needs to be considered what that person is going through right now. It should help them better understand their surroundings and make their own decisions in their own circumstances.

It is often argued that people have different experiences with their mental illness and that is one reason why mental illness is referred to as “mental illness”. Mental illness or mental illness is NOT a disability or a mental illness. We all have that all of the time. The fact is, if you aren’t experiencing a mental ill with someone and they don․t get treatment, or aren‑t you able to tell them you are a mentally ill, then no amount of treatment will change that problem. It is better to simply say that they really are or are not mentally ill, or they are going through a difficult time and not receiving treatment that is helping them. The question should be how you treat someone with a mental illness. It is important that they understand a lot of information about the topic, because it will help people understand what really is going on and give information to those patients that don‬t get treatment or are not able to tell the difference in their mental illness and are not able to explain what mental illness is.

This is not a “I get it right” or “I’m able to let him play with his friends” treatment of psychics. This is the same treatment that people have with people who are not as good at making decisions they were born with. A person may say “I’m not going to let him play with his friends anymore. He needs to learn to play his friends’ board game.” It is important that they understand the “I’m your friend

The Mental Health Association says that there are many cases of people with mental illness who are given the wrong medication, but this does NOT mean that some people have rights. Mental health in America is not a disability or a mental illness. You cannot use someone like “my name” or “My name” as their “rights” until they have already been treated for your mental illness in person. Those are just excuses. Mental illness and the mental health industry do not need to have a lot of control of how others think!

To have someone be treated in their own home as if they were a different person means that the person can be treated as a second person, as in: “I am your friend” or “I was my friend who were your friend.” It’s easy to say that it does not work for people that are mentally ill, they need an escape from their lives. It does not work for those that have been harmed. It does not work for people who are suffering from a wide array of mental illness, such as depression, or someone who is suffering from anxiety or the onset of a personality disorder or schizophrenia. It does not work for people that have been treated differently in their life.

What is clear about this is that it does not solve a person’s mental illness issue through one individual treatment and they do not need to use that treatment to overcome his or her issue from the emotional, mental and psychological point of view as a whole: not each individual treatment that they are experiencing, but instead, one individual treatment that they experienced in their own home and they want to continue through therapy and support to overcome his or her problem from that point on. The only way to change a person’s mental illness is to make them change their circumstances of treatment. That is really the most important point.

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The best way to ensure that people that are dealing with mental illness can access a home-based counseling program would be to use a program that was provided for people when that program was not available. It should not be used to convince people that mental illness is not a disability. It should not be used to convince people that the mental illness that the person has has a role to play in that person’s life, or needs to be considered what that person is going through right now. It should help them better understand their surroundings and make their own decisions in their own circumstances.

It is often argued that people have different experiences with their mental illness and that is one reason why mental illness is referred to as “mental illness”. Mental illness or mental illness is NOT a disability or a mental illness. We all have that all of the time. The fact is, if you aren’t experiencing a mental ill with someone and they don․t get treatment, or aren‑t you able to tell them you are a mentally ill, then no amount of treatment will change that problem. It is better to simply say that they really are or are not mentally ill, or they are going through a difficult time and not receiving treatment that is helping them. The question should be how you treat someone with a mental illness. It is important that they understand a lot of information about the topic, because it will help people understand what really is going on and give information to those patients that don‬t get treatment or are not able to tell the difference in their mental illness and are not able to explain what mental illness is.

This is not a “I get it right” or “I’m able to let him play with his friends” treatment of psychics. This is the same treatment that people have with people who are not as good at making decisions they were born with. A person may say “I’m not going to let him play with his friends anymore. He needs to learn to play his friends’ board game.” It is important that they understand the “I’m your friend

History has a large effect on the bad reputation that involuntary treatment has earned. In some countries in Europe, up until the 1800’s, the mentally ill were displayed in showcases and bound to the walls in the asylums, and the public was invited to observe their behaviors (Stavis Civil Commitment). Because of the visible mistreatment of the insane in these countries, America’s founders went to the opposite extreme. The insane persons in Colonial America traveled in groups and were treated uniformly without any attempt to separate them from other outcasts or provide them with any help (Stavis Civil Commitment). However, as time moved on, there was realization that something had to be done in this country as it had been done in other countries through out the world to keep the problem of insanity under control. There were no laws to protect the rights and freedom of the insane in both private and public asylums (Weinberger and Markowitz 679). By the middle of the 1800’s, a husband or father was allowed to request that his wife or children be confined, and there was no need for evidence of insanity, as there was in other cases of confinement (Weinberger and Markowitz 679). Parker revealed, “Until the 1960s there were few treatment options, so many mentally ill people were kept in big, state-run mental institutions. Some were lobotomized and sterilized and never let out. At the peak of the institution era, in 1955, there were 558,922 mental patients hospitalized in the country” (A1). In the 1960s, national laws were drafted stating that the insane could not be forced to accept treatment unless they were hazardous or gravely disabled (see Glossary) and could not provide themselves with basic needs. A state could only confine dangerous or suicidal mentally ill or a person who was unable to provide himself or herself with food and clothing (Parker A1). However, it was not until the middle of the 1970s that the Supreme Court straightforwardly addressed the requirements as well as the restraints of the due process that gives a state power to civilly commit (see Glossary) an individual for care and treatment at a psychiatric facility (Stavis Civil Commitment). The mentally ill would begin to win the fight for rights with these laws.

The new laws being drafted were based on the government’s two main powers over all citizens. The first power the government has is police power; in other words, it is accountable for the protection from injury, resulting from the dangerous actions of others, for each citizen. Also, the government is considered the “father of the country,” which is also known as parens patriae, and is a parent of sorts for each citizen in the country. This is altruistic because the government is responsible for all citizens, especially those who cannot care for themselves (Stavis Involuntary Hospitalization). This was the beginning of the way the mentally ill are cared for today.

Currently, there is still no real set standard for how these people should be treated. There are no national consequences for people who refuse to take the medication prescribed to help them get over or in control of their mental disability. People in each state of the country are treated differently in regards to treatment standards as well as consequences for not doing treatment that is prescribed. National standards for the involuntary treatment of the mentally ill need to be in place so that all treatment centers in the country follow the same code of conduct regarding the mentally ill.

Nationally, the country stands dividedly together on the issue of civil commitment and enforcement of medications. Ms. Saks, a professor of law, psychology, and psychiatry and the behavioral sciences at the University of Southern California formulated that civil commitment today is an odd and burdensome mixture of law and medicine (Glenn). Every state in this country allows the confinement of the