Yes, the compulsory teatment bit worries me too for exactly the same reason mentioned in the article.
Mum's paranoid schizophrenic, living on incapacity benefit in the community. She is currently having cognitive therapy, which works, because she refuses to take drugs after bad experiences with them in the past. (And the less than shining example of drug teatment of her sister who's on lithium for the same problem.) Obviously, cognitive therapy is much more expensive than drugs, as it requires regular time with a therapist.
I'm worried that if she's forcibly treated, she will not be able to say no to drugs. I know if she is given them she will just flush them down the loo if she can get away with it, and that means more psychotic episodes. While temping I've typed up accounts of forcible treatment of older patients including ECT and I still don't know if deciding not to ring the papers/lawyers/charities/whoever was the right thing to do.
[A sample case in brief, no names etc: old lady is bonkers, wanders round in nothing but big fur coat, is repeatedly arrested and taken to hospital and escapes. After ECT treatment she becomes much more docile, less given to escaping or indeed moving or speaking, dies within 5 months. This is considered successful treatment.]
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Mum's paranoid schizophrenic, living on incapacity benefit in the community. She is currently having cognitive therapy, which works, because she refuses to take drugs after bad experiences with them in the past. (And the less than shining example of drug teatment of her sister who's on lithium for the same problem.) Obviously, cognitive therapy is much more expensive than drugs, as it requires regular time with a therapist.
I'm worried that if she's forcibly treated, she will not be able to say no to drugs. I know if she is given them she will just flush them down the loo if she can get away with it, and that means more psychotic episodes. While temping I've typed up accounts of forcible treatment of older patients including ECT and I still don't know if deciding not to ring the papers/lawyers/charities/whoever was the right thing to do.
[A sample case in brief, no names etc: old lady is bonkers, wanders round in nothing but big fur coat, is repeatedly arrested and taken to hospital and escapes. After ECT treatment she becomes much more docile, less given to escaping or indeed moving or speaking, dies within 5 months. This is considered successful treatment.]