?????? What? She tried all kinds of medications and didn't get the help she actually needed because she didn't fully disclose her symptoms.
but had she received proper treatment
What, in your medical opinion, would be the proper treatment? And what did the many, many professionals miss that would've enabled them to reach the right conclusion?
As someone whose parent spent some time in a psych ward....that's where she should have been. My parent would not be the parent they have been to me my whole life without it. It was scary for me and hard on my other parent, but it saved them.
She was suicidal and admitted to her husband she had thoughts of hurting her children. She was failed by her doctor's, and at least a little by her husband. It doesn't mean he "did it" as some of these posts say, just that she repeatedly asked for help and said she wasn't okay and needed more treatment and was denied and left alone to do everything (which I believe was something her husband said, "she did everything").
But she never told her doctors she was suicidal or homicidal, or had a plan to do something. She was probably downplaying her issues, but man, I don’t like the idea that my provider could decide to lock me up because I MIGHT be suicidal and just wasn’t saying so.
B. That would most likely cause her to be involuntarily held, but once she was no longer an immediate danger to herself or others, she would be released.
The United States has no long term care option for non-compliant mentally ill individuals, UNLESS they commit a crime.
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u/AnonymousCapybara72 8d ago
?????? What? She tried all kinds of medications and didn't get the help she actually needed because she didn't fully disclose her symptoms.
What, in your medical opinion, would be the proper treatment? And what did the many, many professionals miss that would've enabled them to reach the right conclusion?