stimmyabby:

schizomemeia:

it’s so weird to read studies about the perceived coercion of involuntary treatment, and how it is bad if patients perceive involuntary treatment as being coerced, because it could cause non-compliance, so we should find ways to make patients stop Wrongly Perceiving involuntary treatment as coercion

patients aren’t “perceiving“ involuntary treatment as being coercive, it literally is. if the police bring someone to the hospital against their will, they are entering the hospital by coercion. if someone is given medication by injection while they’re held down, then they are being given medication by coercion. treatment that is involuntary is by definition treatment through coercion, the problem isn’t psychiatric patients Faulty Perceptions of coercion

“b/c it could cause noncompliance" 

because you do not care if you are controlling people you only care if they notice because then they might resist 

“we should make people feel less controlled so we can control them better”

Like, involuntary treatments are incredibly coercive, violating, traumatizing. All of which is about the worst you can put someone through who is already in a state of bad mental health.

But nooooooo that’s just the ‘perception’ of the people who actually experience it. Right.