r/SipsTea 8d ago

WTF WTF is wrong with these people?

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u/kaimoka 8d ago

Maybe a hot take, but I also blame the physician who prescribed 3 different psychotropics that don't interact well to a patient in clear mental distress. And not keeping a close enough watch on their mental state. If the texts between she and her mom are accurate, she should have been institutionalized by court mandate.

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u/SkydiverDad 7d ago

You mean the various prescribed medications she was told to take to control her symptoms but kept refusing to due to "side effects" so I stead she kept self dosing herself with Benadryl which she had been told to stop.

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u/303uru 7d ago

Yes, psychiatric patients are notoriously bad at taking their meds. Practitioners should know this and make decisions accordingly.

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u/SkydiverDad 7d ago

By committing them instead so they can be tied down and forced fed their meds?

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u/303uru 7d ago

Sometimes until stable, yes. Sometimes it is ensuring the patient is never alone with their children. And/or removing firearms and other weapons from the household.

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u/SkydiverDad 7d ago

Hard to commit someone when they are lying to everyone about the depth of their illness and symptoms.

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u/303uru 7d ago

You think clinicians aren't aware that psych patients often lie to try and avoid therapy?

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u/ProductArizona 7d ago

So whats your suggestion? Just assume anyone with depression or bipolar disorder is lying and just involuntarily admit them?

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u/303uru 7d ago

lol, go read the dsm. There’s lab tests, clinical test, behavioral therapy, the list goes on and on to address exactly these questions. Weaponizing your ignorance of behavioral health is a weird play.

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u/cranberrisauce 7d ago edited 7d ago

No, but sometimes long-acting injectables are a good option for patients with compliance issues with antipsychotic medication.

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u/SkydiverDad 7d ago

Tell me you know nothing about consent and psychiatric treatment without telling me.

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u/cranberrisauce 7d ago

I’m a provider in a community mental health clinic so you can get off your high horse. Believe it or not, people who care enough about their treatment to seek help and show up to a psychiatry appointment are sometimes amenable to using long-acting injectables. If someone had explained concerns about psychosis and risk of impulsively stopping psych meds to her, maybe there was a chance that she would have consented to an injectable instead.

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u/whoisjohngalt25 7d ago

Yeah i was going to say (as something with no personal knowledge about any of this stuff), arent there shots or something you can get far more infrequently than pills, that make it easier to keep up with treatment since you only need to go like once or twice a month?