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Unity-Druid OP t1_iyuok3v wrote

Reply to comment by LostLetterbox in Thought Experiment - The Hermit and the Giant by Unity-Druid

Along these lines: it's not uncommon to see people who are floridly psychotic or display a serious inability to care for themself be legally committed to the care of the hospital involuntarily, or to have guardianship assigned to a relative or other legal guardian. In these cases, a simple question raises grave concerns: what if the person with legal guardianship secretly but potently hates the person for whom they are enabled to make medical decisions?

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LostLetterbox t1_iyuov3j wrote

Australia had an issue with one of our public trusts (which can take over financial custodianship when no alternative is available)... They were, in my opinion, unethically billing them which one might interpret as theft...

Mental capacity is a huge issue even before multiple personalities enter the fray. If I had better answers I might try to complain louder.

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Unity-Druid OP t1_iyupdox wrote

I feel I can empathize with your last sentence there. At the psych hospital where I work, in the US, I care for many patients who have been involuntarily committed. Although I have deep ethical concerns about many practices in American psychiatry, and the American Mental Health Court system, people only become committed to the hospital's care after they have fallen through every safety net and crack in society, of which there are desperately few to begin with. This is the best we have, at the moment, but I see a large part of my life's work as the fight toward a better, more ethical, more compassionate system.

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LostLetterbox t1_iyupgno wrote

Don't burn out! You're too important ❤️

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Unity-Druid OP t1_iyuqsbh wrote

Thank you, I really appreciate that. Thanks for caring about the good fight.

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