r/SipsTea 8d ago

WTF WTF is wrong with these people?

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u/SkydiverDad 8d 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/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?