Community mental health
There are a couple of weaknesses that are attached to this kind of health. Community mental health worsens the situation of the patients in question to the extent of preferring to die. The caregivers concentrate on medicine administration and forget to show love to the patients, which makes the patients feel rejected, and some which they are dead. A patient was heard saying that all the doctor did was give her pills without talking to her (pg. 149).
Another weakness is that members of the care team tend to intrude in people’s home without their consent. An example of giving of such an occurrence is when the group ambushed an older woman, who had been on medication and was diagnosed with dementia. When they try to interview her, she sounds irate because she was not ready for such a surprise visit (pg. 150).
Furthermore, CMH employs police force on people to have them hospitalized. Such a behaviour invites resistance from the patients in question since they are aware of what will transpire after they are taken to hospital by force. A patient explains how such an ordeal once occurred to her, where she was taken by the police to hospital by force. On arrival, she was stripped and underwent some torture. She was even tied on the bed and put on isolation (pg. 150). She speaks in a way that you can tell she was not impressed by the events.
Diane, one of the participants in the week’s lecture, recounts how she was coerced because she had remarked something about one of the staff. She was isolated, which she thinks was an overdone reaction in as much as she accepts that she was wrong (pg. 7). Another participant, Betty, had experienced misuse of the substance resulting from her condition of depression. It wasn’t very easy for her to find a doctor who was sensitive to her insight (pg. 1)