Agreed. If I'm being asked to 'comply' with something then I'm not being asked at all. I've always objected to others trying to impose themselves upon me in any form, but never more so than when it comes to medical issues. It's called autonomy. MH labels don't make that disappear
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But you don't really, because the NHS has a monopoly. The only choice is Hobsons choice, and even then, not necessarily. Did you see the guy on TV who was sectioned for refusing to take his diabetes meds?
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No! I didn't see that. Have you any link please? You'd be surprised how much you can influence your choices via NHS if you insist on a full, robust consent process. Other treatment options seem to 'emerge' from nowhere. And there *should* the choice to walk away with capacity.
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I've no idea whether it's online. It was one of the fly-on-the-wall TV progs. Repeated 999 calls to patient who keeps stopping his meds (face hidden, not talking to camera), and paramedics say that they tried sectioning him, but had to let him go because he isn't mentally ill.
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Oh dear God! And they put that on TV? Did nobody ask why they even tried to section him if he wasn't mentally ill? 'Had to let him go' implies reluctance to do so. Why were they so set on imposing their will upon that poor chap, I wonder? Really worries me, that sort of thing.
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