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Episode 6: What Gives You The Right
Today we’re going to get right to the heart of the biggest controversy in the treatment of people with severe mental illness: involuntary treatment, and what gives another person the right to intervene when their loved one is not willing to seek or accept treatment.
This, more than any other issue, is the determinant for what our systems of treatment look like. It affects what our laws allow, and it also affects how people choose to interpret and implement those laws. Some individuals and groups believe that involuntary treatment should never be an option and other individuals and groups believe that at times it is both necessary and compassionate to intervene when our loved ones are not willing to seek or accept treatment due to the symptoms of their illnesses.
It’s a heated debate since it involves the curtailment of individual liberties. I can say from personal experience that being willing to say that there is a place for involuntary treatment means being accused of wanting to lock everyone with mental illness up, of wanting to bring back the snake pit asylums of the 50s, and other offensive things that are enraging to a family member whose motivation is always to alleviate the suffering of my loved one and heal my family.
"Make Them Hear You" is an original podcast from Treatment Advocacy Center - the oldest national non-profit dedicated to eliminating the barriers to treatment for severe mental illness. In this podcast series, Treatment Advocacy Center's Senior Legislative and Policy Counsel, Sabah Muhammad, is the host and leads listeners through courageous conversations which uplift the voices of some of our most vulnerable members of society: individuals of color with a diagnosis of severe mental illness.
Visit Treatment Advocacy Center's website to learn more: treatmentadvocacycenter.org
Direct media inquiries to [email protected]
"Make Them Hear You" is hosted by Sabah Muhammad.
Produced by Bill Retherford, Sabah Muhammad, and Shannon Zogran.
Written and edited by Sabah Muhammad, Shannon Zogran, Lisa Dailey, and Michael Gray.
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By Treatment Advocacy CenterToday we’re going to get right to the heart of the biggest controversy in the treatment of people with severe mental illness: involuntary treatment, and what gives another person the right to intervene when their loved one is not willing to seek or accept treatment.
This, more than any other issue, is the determinant for what our systems of treatment look like. It affects what our laws allow, and it also affects how people choose to interpret and implement those laws. Some individuals and groups believe that involuntary treatment should never be an option and other individuals and groups believe that at times it is both necessary and compassionate to intervene when our loved ones are not willing to seek or accept treatment due to the symptoms of their illnesses.
It’s a heated debate since it involves the curtailment of individual liberties. I can say from personal experience that being willing to say that there is a place for involuntary treatment means being accused of wanting to lock everyone with mental illness up, of wanting to bring back the snake pit asylums of the 50s, and other offensive things that are enraging to a family member whose motivation is always to alleviate the suffering of my loved one and heal my family.
"Make Them Hear You" is an original podcast from Treatment Advocacy Center - the oldest national non-profit dedicated to eliminating the barriers to treatment for severe mental illness. In this podcast series, Treatment Advocacy Center's Senior Legislative and Policy Counsel, Sabah Muhammad, is the host and leads listeners through courageous conversations which uplift the voices of some of our most vulnerable members of society: individuals of color with a diagnosis of severe mental illness.
Visit Treatment Advocacy Center's website to learn more: treatmentadvocacycenter.org
Direct media inquiries to [email protected]
"Make Them Hear You" is hosted by Sabah Muhammad.
Produced by Bill Retherford, Sabah Muhammad, and Shannon Zogran.
Written and edited by Sabah Muhammad, Shannon Zogran, Lisa Dailey, and Michael Gray.