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0 pointsmansoon3y ago0 comments

Is someone diagnosed with Schzophrenia allowed to disagree with you?

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It always comes down to absolutes, if you're sifting the question finely enough (warning, at some point this process will distort the grains, and you won't be processing reality anymore, but the result of your own mind, the cycle is fatal).

Anyway. This moment is a _very_ direct test of this question. Answering it, or more carefully, your emotional reaction on reading this, will expose some of your absolutes.

sterlind3y ago

I've had a friend go off psych meds for religious reasons (Christian Science) and nearly die (waxy catatonia from severe bipolar), so my objectivity is impaired. however:

my rule of thumb is that if the patient, after being returned to lucidity by meds, agrees in retrospect that meds were necessary, then it's the right call.

the other exception is if the person is at substantial risk of hurting others if unmedicated. then the violence of mandated medication is warranted.

barring that, if someone on psych meds wants to go back off them, I wouldn't prevent them from doing so.

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