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i've been a patient in australian psychiatric hospitals.

generally here they would put you on a community treatment order to force you to take your medication ( you attend a meeting, mental health teams tells lies about you til the order is approved by the board members), once on a treatment order if you refuse they will have police arrest you take you to hospital or a health clinic restrain you and inject you.

they will lie to get you there, they will lie to your family to convince them you need to be there, without someone overseeing mental health & asking the hard questions nothing can be done about it, they don't need to justify it cause they have no one to answer to.

patients go in expecting they will get help and come out better but they quickly realize they will get worse mentally and physically the longer they stay (looking around at long term patients makes you realize) so they try to get out, you generally have more resources and freedom on the outside, you have to lie and lie or you will be put on more medication.They cant fix you so they just want to sedate you enough to shut you up.

To stay out you have to keep to yourself don't do anything to draw attention to yourself, don't even mix with an ex-patient you were in a ward with.I mostly play video games at home and take my meds, I don't get hassled by mental health workers anymore.

i have a couple of questions, 1.if someone is being irrational how do you make them see logic? 2. have you ever lost it at work? 3. how do you keep calm?