Forced hospitalizations in Canada

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Why does Canada have such high rates of forced psychiatric hospitalizations? - The Globe and Mail Why does Canada have such high rates of forced psychiatric hospitalizations? - The Globe and Mail

As a Canada citizen I have been forced hospitalized / treated a bunch of times.

The main reason I see for it from my perspective is if you are showing any symptoms of psychosis they write you up as risk to self and others.

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Because when you go voluntarily they put you on a “ involuntary hold”

I didnt read any od the article yet

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Only happened to me once. However I hate the psych ward and didn’t go voluntarily as often as I should have. It’s less of a problem in Alberta as we do our best not to have any health care services here for the mentally ill or any other kind of ill (except rich people).

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Its true I was psychotic in Calgary back in ‘04 probably and I was released from hospital same night psychotic. Only time its ever happened to me in Canada. It might have happened twice in Calgary can’t remember.

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I had a brief stay in a psych ward in Edmonton that same year. They had to move me off Zyprexa and I got put in to be safe while they shuffled my meds. It sucked.

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It’s like that in Michigan as well. Any form of psychosis is grounds for forced inpatient admissions.

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probably cause healthcare is free so people including healthcare workers will use it without thinking about the finances of a person. If they had to pay for it like in other countries they might say “well you know we dont want to put this guy in debt when hes doing relatively ok he doesnt need to go neccisarily”.

here it seems like they just willy nilly send you “just to be safe”.

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You need to pay for forced hospitalisation in America ?

I thought that because it’s for the safety of the person and others, the government was the one paying

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im pretty sure they do yes, although i think there is like medicare and stuff like that if your income is low which i imagine helps… i think most poeple have some kind of insurance there tho

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Nah you pay afterwards if you don’t have insurance

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Meanwhile in the UK, you could be in a horrendous state, and they’ll oo and arr over helping you. “DONT JUMP! THE CRISIS TEAM WILL SEE YOU IN 14 DAYS!” that sort of thing. If Canada is taking affirmative steps and actions, I take my hat off to them. The wimpy tarty “oooo I dont know” stance over here is what almost lead to me unliving someone when I should of been in hospital being forcefully medicated back to sense.

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Not a chance! I’ve had to pay for all my hospitalizations.

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Not really, no. There are no beds avaialble to admit people from the ER unless they toss someone else who is too sick to go home but they are booted anyhow and put on “community supports” that mostly don’t show up to help the person at home. In the case of an MI person they are likely still in crisis or, if lucky, just not functional.

This backs up the ERs so people aren’t seen in a timely manner and leave. Some die in the waiting room .

Oh, also, if you call for an ambulance it may not show up the same day sometimes.

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Yeah thats the same as here. People die in A&E/ER. Bed crisis .etc they are trying to manage with bare bone resources.

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As I was saying.

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UK is strict; any signs of psychosis and you can get sectioned/ 5150d

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