I read that things are changing in the UK mental health system. Actually, the UK is producing a lot of good research on mental health, drug use, psychological and social approaches to mental illness, etc.

I don't know. On the plus side, you don't have to deal with the downsides of a tranquilizer. here where i live, they have these things..."court orders..." where people have to show up at a community mental health clinic to receive a long acting injection (depot) antipsychotic, or something happens. I don't know if its jail or they get put back in the hospital, but bad stuff can happen.

to me...that's a huge power trip. im not on one, because I have my "good family" behind me. That's the other thing...they say its about "effective treatment," but if you have money or, like me, the people behind you have money...they don't bother putting you on one. Can't complain, personally, but...it really saddens me, and it doesn't seem like its "treatment" so much as intense social control.