rockspider
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Well you obviously know your stuff. Your rules seems also to coincide to a degree with ours here in Denmark.
On your comments about staff at mental wards my impression is that here they really are holding tanks for seek people who is feed various types of medicine. For the rest of the time the patients is just left to their own devices staring at a telly or the wall. My beliefs is that the personel should really be there to talk to the patients as much as possible as that is often more what they need. Also a psyciatric treatment should never rely on medicine alone but must also comprise regular session with a qualified psyciatrist or psychologist. That part for the danish mental wards is sorely neglected. I would value your input about on this as i am quite interested in how they do it in other countries.
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ORIGINAL: DesFIP
Shock treatment isn't used to control someone with violent outbursts. It never was. It was a last ditch attempt to destroy the part of the brain that did not respond to treatment. Which then was solely talk therapy as SSRIs did not come on the market until the 1990's.
Back in the mid 70's I tried to talk my doctor into doing this to me, because I suffered from chronic, clinical depression which frequently made me suicidal. Since at that point the amount of current and the length of the shock was much higher than it is today, it caused permanent damage to your memory. She refused to do so to a 16 year old Ivy League college student
Today it is used only for patients with very severe symptoms who do not respond to medication. It has been used successfully in post partum psychosis. It has been used successfully in suicidal patients for whom SSRIs and the other mood altering medications do not work.
If you are violent, that's what thorazine is for. And you can only be committed for 72 hours, plus you are entitled to legal counsel if you disagree with the decision to commit you. And you can only be committed for those 72 hours if you present a clear and immediate danger to yourself or others.
Are there some people who should not be allowed to work in such hospitals? Obviously. There are bad eggs in all walks of life. Is it fair to smear every worker in a psychiatric unit? By no means.
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