What sort of a clinic did you have to go to?
My experience...
I think in NZ psychologists don't have the power to involountarily admit a person or make them attend treatment. Courts do. Psychiatrists do. I also think, however, that psychiatrists talk to psychologists and thus if the psychologist reccomended a treatment order the psychiatrist might take that very seriously indeed.
I'm wondering what kind of treatment you think you might be forced into.
I mean... For what?
They are only supposed to intervene (by force) if they have good reason to believe you are a danger to someone else or, (more controversially) a danger to yourself.
Typically they try to get volountary consent... But with the threat of 'volontary or involontary'...
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