Recently in California they passed the Care Act which allows a first responder to file a petition to summon you in court to take forced medication. You can refuse this but they could then file again another petition into a conservatorship. If you lose the hearing for conservatorship then it's possible they will put you in a outpatient forced medication program where police come to your house if you don't take the injection.
I was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and put on Abilify. I have worked with my psychiatrist to slowly lower the dose and I'm almost off. I'm scared once I get off the psychiatrist will files a petition and summon me to court.
My question is what advice do you have for someone in the situation. I do have a good psychologist who believes I don't have mental illness and I have been going to him for 2 years. He could potentially testify for me. But how do you win these kind of hearings in a pro psychiatry legal system?
I was even considering contacting disability rights California who was against the care act in the first place.
I do feel much better after reducing the dose but would hate to be forced back on medication and this time it would be injections instead of the pill.
Could you say the psychiatrist is lieing and try to get a perjury case against it? What is the best strategy?
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Recently in California they passed the Care Act which allows a first responder to file a petition to summon you in court to take forced medication. You can refuse this but they could then file again another petition into a conservatorship. If you lose the hearing for conservatorship then it's possible they will put you in a outpatient forced medication program where police come to your house if you don't take the injection.
I was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia and put on Abilify. I have worked with my psychiatrist to slowly lower the dose and I'm almost off. I'm scared once I get off the psychiatrist will files a petition and summon me to court.
My question is what advice do you have for someone in the situation. I do have a good psychologist who believes I don't have mental illness and I have been going to him for 2 years. He could potentially testify for me. But how do you win these kind of hearings in a pro psychiatry legal system?
I was even considering contacting disability rights California who was against the care act in the first place.
I do feel much better after reducing the dose but would hate to be forced back on medication and this time it would be injections instead of the pill.
Could you say the psychiatrist is lieing and try to get a perjury case against it? What is the best strategy?
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