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Old Sep 24, 2009, 08:05 PM
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She refuses to take psychiatric medications because her EX-husband forcibly hospitalized her. She's told me that the police were called, she was put in handcuffs, and she was taken to a psych unit in California (we live in New York). She firmly believes, and I agree with her to her some extent, that her rights were violated
That must have been very humiliating and traumatic for your wife.
Yet, logic says that taking the medication was not the cause of this experience; it appears that there was something else that instigated the police being called...

In truth, not taking the medication has also resulted in hospitalizations, though admittedly achieved in a different way.

Does your wife see a psychotherapist to help her with this?