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splitimage said:
I'm an administrator on another forum...
We're currently having a bit of a crisis becuase one of our members who is clearly bipolar is off her meds and is clearly psychotic. She's posting all kinds of scary things but she's still in touch enough with reality to be seeking help. Members have been great about posting that she needs to see her dr;, get to an er, trust her family and get back on her meds. It seemed to be going really well. Latest news another member who we also think is in the midst of a psychotic break has posted in the thread, saying don't take your meds we don't know enough about how the brain works to trust any medication and that maybe the hallucinations are just an example of being transported to another dimension that other people can't see. AUGH.
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Here's my thought for the day: unfortunately, the state of affairs in mental illness treatment is not so favorable that (IMO) one can state flatly that medications, or doctors, or other mental health professionals, or hospitals, are good for you. Using them does not necessarily result in good outcomes. As I see it, this is a FACT and has to be dealt with. One must somehow be able to distinguish the valuable from the not. And my experience tells me that there is a lot of the latter. How is a sufferer to tell the difference, when his or her mind is occupied by possibly unstable emotions? Well, I have not been able to find an easy answer for myself.

I think this post on the Schizophrenia and Psychosis forum by spiritual_emergency is very helpful in this connection.:

http://forums.psychcentral.com/showf...586#Post778234