How to Avoid Incarceration and Forced Drugging
Simple techniques in complicated matters
Introduction
Under section 8, of the Mental Health Act 1992, anyone over 18 years can commit any other person if they think you are mentally ill, in danger to yourself or others.
They may be thinking wrongly, but that is never investigated. It is right open to abuse. If anyone has a snits against you, they can instigated committal, if they seen you within three days.
Confronting The Evidence
Avoiding the instigator and perpetrators.
Never tell a doctor that you have had a hard time, because you will be done in.
Stay away from the doctor if you have a hard time.
Who is doing the incarceration, forced drugging and forcibly detaining in mental hospital?
There are several players in this field.
In one corner of the ceiling is a surveillance camera.
- Some one put in the application form, that person is the instigator.
- The subject is called: a proposed patient.
- The one who does the committal is a doctor. He get well paid for that $150.- Who benefits?
- The reason for committal is vague, it can be because the instigator thinks you are a nuisance, but that will not be investigated.
- The subject will be taken to a mental institution to see a psychiatrist.
- The subject should see a lawyer before going, but no one gives you that opportunity.
- Assessment and treatment go together. The psychiatrist does assess and treats the proposed patient straight away with harmful drugs.
- The proposed patient has no right to refuse the drugs.
- Informed consent does not exist. You are not given any rights you can assert.
- You are kept under lock and key, you are not allowed to leave. You are imprisoned
What can you do?
If you are committed under the mental health Act.
- Ask for assessment to be conducted by different psychiatrist for a second opinion. You have a right to this.
- Use your right: to use the phone and contact friends (Steve Green) (Claude) (Anna de Jonge) who can write letters, e-mails or make phone calls to the psychiatrists advising them that they have made an incorrect assessment, with reasons why, of course.
- Speak with the Patients Rights Advocate in the hospital and ask him/her to intervene on your behalf.
- Ask for a copy of the Mental Health Act 1992, and read for yourself what legal avenues there are for you to be released forthwith.
- Ask for a list of lawyers to contact. Have a cell phone with you that has pre-set phone numbers of a lawyer, our groups main number, a number of a close friend you can rely on or several if you should be so lucky! Then one can use it straight away and alert someone of your plight. Ring a lawyer... Ph: 03 477 0636 Fax: 03 477 0242 and Ph:09 303 2008
Speed is important when responding so the person you call needs to be not far from you and has the capability to ring others too. We need a response network where a friend a lawyer a friendly doctor are all easily summoned to intervene before any drugs are given. We need a second opinion that will neutralise that of the psych and also that of the instigator. That way it has to go to court first.
We have to break/slow that initial psych assessment opportunity from occurring so that preventative action can be applied.
Do not go with the social worker or the police if they do not have a warrant for arrest. - Ask for a Section 16 hearing.
- Speak to the nurses and ask them to address the psychiatrists in respect to your faulty diagnosis.
- If you want to stop taking the drugs, call a nurse after you have taken them one day and advise him/her that the drugs are making you feel very unwell and you really do not wish to take them any more. If it is a good nurse, in my opinion, he/she would ensure that you were no longer forced to take them.
Avenues to avoid antidepressants:
- Advise the psychiatrist that you do not wish to take them as major scientific studies have shown that antidepressants are no more effective than placebos, such as sugar tablets in disguise, at treating depression, (For example, refer JAMA, Vol. 287, No. 14, April 10, 2002; Kirsch et al, The Emperor's New Drugs: An Analysis of Antidepressant medication Data submitted to the US Food and Drug Administration, American Psychological Assoc., 2002).
- If it is an SSRI, point out that research is showing that SSRIs are addictive, and you do not which your health compromised. Specify that you only will accept natural remedies, such as exercise, St John's Wort Omega 3, and Vit B Complex.
- Point out that while SSRI's inhibit serotonin reuptake, it is merely hypothesised that depression and anxiety are related to abnormal levels of serotonin. Depression is also believed to be associated with abnormal levels of other neurotransmitters, such as dopamine and norepinephrine.
- The DSM IV lists 307 types of depression -ask which one the psychiatrist thinks he or she is treating and why he/she thinks it is related to serotonin levels.
- If you are already on them, complain that they make you feel very unwell and say you felt happier without them.
- Request the Minister of Health for a judicial inquiry into Section 84 of the MH Act, or under Section 66 and Section 114 action can be taken which deals with maltreatment and negligence.
We are further dedicated to exposing the truth about these drugs and the courts being misled into ordering people to be drugged and subjected to other brain and body damaging interventions against their will.
If I can be of assistance to you, and your friends in regards to Patients Rights Advocacy, whether supplying just good information and contacts, I can help.
Please contact me personally and you can be assured of a quick response.
If you can help with any referrals it would be appreciated. Next time someone asks who they should talk to in regard to Patients Rights Advocacy, think of me and give me a call.
Kind regards
Anna de Jonge
Patients Rights Advocate NGO
65 Tawa Street
Hamilton
Ph: 07 8435 837
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