From Mad in South Asia: Divya Kalathingal examines the emotional, ethical, and practical burdens of psychiatric caregiving, critiquing medication-focused treatment, limited patient autonomy, inadequate support for families, and persistent stigma surrounding mental illness and ageing. Even cancer patients can choose to deny treatment or discontinue medication. But when it comes to the case of psychiatric patients, patients are not given a position to take a call on treatment, and the caregivers are placed in a total dilemma.
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