There is an issue popping up across the country where it appears that a lot of prosecutors and judges are in cahoots with hospitals and big pharmaceutical and are using individuals on involuntary holds as a commodity thats worth the amount of medications they are forced to take. I have seen news stories about judges taking kick backs from prisons and pharma companies to send people to certain places or require certain medications.
During my recent involuntary hold I asked every patient who was on a hold what meds they were taking, amazingly everyone was prescribed the same drug. Thats a red flag for me. It means that its a blanket approach to complex situations, and though might be cost effective and potentially lining pockets of those involved in the process it is taking away the autonomy of our rights to choose what medications we take. You can not force us to change inside, you can only force medications.
One big issue I have with this type of approach is that its not meeting the needs of the patient. There are a lot of types of evidence based therapies that work but for some reason rather than introduce people to therapies that meet their individual needs, we are forcing medications. It doesn't make sense, if you wan't people to recover, then fund mental health treatment appropriately, wait it does make sense if you work for the pharmaceutical companies.
Allow for those who are on holds, or part of the system in anyway to pick therapies that work for them rather than forcing a pill down our throats. The long term results could be that people are having a better life and not relapsing as much and thus saving tax dollars down the road.
Our current method is making people and companies richer, but is it really helping the people or are they just seen as dollar signs that keep going through the system?
Hell, I do EMDR to myself all the time at home now. Its very affordable.
;Thank you,
Mikey