Posted by Deneb on May 27, 2005, at 20:34:07
In reply to Re: I feel like doing a bad bad thing *trigger* » Deneb, posted by Larry Hoover on May 27, 2005, at 18:40:28
> > The ER nurse threatened to call a code on me the next time I tried to escape...would that have been a code white?
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> If you were physically fighting to escape, yes. If you simply disappeared without anyone seeing, that's a missing patient. By law, the police must be notified, and you will be apprehended.
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> > I wasn't violent though.
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> You were on a 72-hour assessment, right?I hadn't actually been given notice of my assessment yet (form 42) that tells me that I was on a Form 1. They couldn't hold me when I wasn't on a Form 1 yet right?...The police can force me to go to the hospital but they can't force treatment on me.
Ok, under a Form 1:
I "can be detained, restrained, observed and examined in the facility for a maximum of 72 hours." Section 15(5)(b) MHA..."The Form 1 allows a doctor to hold you in a hospital for up to 72 hours to complete a psychiatric assessment. This assessment is to determine whether you require the care and supervision that a psychiatric hospital can provide."
However, the hospital can only detain me for the assessment...this means they cannot treat me against my will right?
Even if they can treat me against my will, they can only treat psychiatric problems and not medical problems...This means that I may not be able to leave because I might harm myself, but that if I take a fatal overdose and refuse treatment they cannot treat me for it correct? Hehe...it's pretty screwy. It's like: Ok you are forced to take ADs, but you can refuse gastric lavage because you still have the right to refuse medical treatment. Am I right or wrong? Or are you simply trying to scare me by saying I will be locked up again?
It is so unfair...unfair, unfair, unfair...all this discrimination against the "mentally ill"...the fact is there is nothing "wrong" with me. Just cuz I want to hurt myself does not mean I'm crazy. I'm not a criminal, but they can still lock me up...it's NOT fair! They're mean! Mean mean mean! They wouldn't let me cross the yellow and black line! It's not fair, I wasn't crazy.
> > He wouldn't have really put in restraints would he?
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> Without doubt. It is their job.I hadn't been given Form 42 yet. Wouldn't they need the police to restrain me then?
If I ever, ever get restrained, I'm scream Bloody freaking murder! I'll kick and scream and rise freaking hell...that'll show them. They can't do that to me! I'll resist and they will just have to kill me.
I won't be treated that way. I'd rather die! They can't do that to me, I'm not crazy.
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