Does Psychiatric treatment make you safe?

Question

By making a person sensible? or will it tend to disgrace a person and make him a target because he is disgraced?

Answer 1

Psychiatric treatment should make you well, as for sensible that is a matter of opinion, was the person a sensible person before the illness?
I should not disgrace a person, this is a stigma which is old fashioned and needs to be changed.
Only by realising that mental health happens to all kinds of people 1:4 during their lives, will it become more accepted as 'normal'
Unfortunately there are lots of people to convince otherwise who think it is OK to poke fun, who are totally ignorant about mental health illness.

Answer 2

Safe from what? In what way will it make you sensible? Why should you feel disgraced?

At one time I had to take Wednesday afternoons off for group therapy. My co-workers wanted to know I got time off like that, I told them. The ignorant and small-minded equated therapy with being crazy. One co-worker even called me a crazy b...ch because I was in therapy. I told him I was working at getting better what was he doing about his problem? I also said that he shouldn't make me angry in case I decided to go postal '-)

I don't like being rude but when an ignorant person steps out-of-bounds then give them something to worry about. Tell then some outrageous lie that no intelligent person would every consider to be the truth. Tell them you are in therapy because at times you think you're a dog and feel the urge to BITE and your wife/mother etc. complains when you sh.t on the floor.

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Answer 3

As psychiatric treatment is a private matter, it should not make a person a target, unless he invites it upon himself, by revealing that he is in treatment. In most cases, continued treatment, will make the person safer.

Answer 4

It makes a person sensible - I have been an inpatient at a psychiatric hospital and my friends think it's "cool" and "fashionable"!