An unidentified man who matched the description of an “eloped” patient was brought to Graylands Hospital in Perth, where he was injected with an antipsychotic that caused an adverse reaction requiring overnight hospitalization. The Western Australia Health Minister has apologized for the “dreadful mistake”.
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“The man fell ill after being given the drugs and needed hospital treatment.”
I picked this exert up from on of the links in the articles. Anyway, if this had happened to someone with an “MI” label, it would have interpreted as needing more of the drugs.
And if the person had complained about being ill, they would have been seen as wanting attention.
Sorry for my extreme cynicism but I have heard and read too many horror stories to not believe this wouldn’t happen.
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Totally accurate, it is also assumed that it is perfectly acceptable for those labelled as mentally ill to be treated this way. Does not matter if they have such side effects, only matters if they have the wrong person. They continue to believe that these fictional diseases are worse than any side effects of medication, often even when the medication has killed them – they then say, well they are better off dead, than living with xyz condition!! Yet most of these symptoms are created by them!!
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I know someone who had their arm broken by a restraint team in a psych hospital ward. She did not get treatment at casualty for some time because they thought she was being manipulative and might be using this as an excuse to run away.
She is now one angry woman.
http://speakoutagainstpsychiatry.org/cheryls-story/
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I know someone who was complaining of headaches, they said it was part of her disease, for years, and just keep increasing the medication!! Finally a new doctor came on and ordered a brain scan. She was in the final stages of a brain tumor that if found early would have easily have been able to be removed. I don’t expect her to live more than a few weeks now.
I also know of similar stories in relation to restraints. Never ceases to amaze me the length they need to go to restrain someone. Yet when the police do the same things to someone they have labelled they criticise the police and tell them they should not be using such force and should respect the “illness” that they have. If they, the supposed experts are not willing to talk to anyone, why should they expect anyone else to. Of course if they simply treated the person like a human being they would not require any such thing. But I guess to do that, one would have to consider that they actually are a human being.
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It also shows that they do no assessment of people before they treat them. What symptoms was this innocent man showing. How was it that the person who was so in need of this treatment, could be mistaken for the average person??? If this is not an indiciation of just how stupid the system is I don’t know what is. I thought people were supposed to be hospitalised as a last resort, and only when they are acutely ill, and of course to only be on forced treatment orders as a total and utter last resort, but here they can mistake such an accutely and out of control person who needs to be both forcibly treated and locked up with the average person walking the street.
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I’m sitting here wondering if all of this wasn’t really a punishment for daring to run away, although they got the wrong person!
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That would not suprise me and is definately very possible. When it comes to the system anything is possible and the whole thing is excused away by classifying it as a form of medical treatment!!!
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And the crowning line of all is that they say, “We’re doing this to help you, for your own good!”
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