http://www.courtreference.com/court-reference-blog/2008/04/11/mental-illness-case-information/ Court Records Access Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:46:39 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.courtreference.com/court-reference-blog/2008/04/11/mental-illness-case-information/comment-page-1/#comment-609 wally Sun, 23 Jan 2011 22:31:05 +0000 http://www.courtreference.com/court-reference-blog/2008/04/11/mental-illness-case-information/#comment-609 In Wash. State, it has to be really obvious that someone is a threat to themselves or others in order to be involuntarily committed. Or else in danger of imminent, irretrievable mental collapse. My sister crashed five weeks after helping her taper off antipsych meds, while switching her over to natural therapies. I tapered her off way too quickly. I should have done it over a 3 year period, (rather than 3 weeks), as she had been on the meds for 12 years. (If she had never started the meds, and instead been started on natural treatments, I'm sure she would never have needed the meds to begin with). After stabilized on the meds, again, she went to a naturopath, and the natural therapies were then combined with the meds. Along with the new, non-gluten, dairy-free diet, her side-effects from the drugs are gone. She feels better than she ever has before. Hopefully we can taper her off her meds again, but this time over a much longer time frame. For those with metabolic imbalances, these naturopathic methods seem to be the solution. For those who have a mental illness caused by psychological factors, such as a nervous breakdown, psychotherapy may be all that is needed. In Wash. State, it has to be really obvious that someone is a threat to themselves or others in order to be involuntarily committed. Or else in danger of imminent, irretrievable mental collapse. My sister crashed five weeks after helping her taper off antipsych meds, while switching her over to natural therapies. I tapered her off way too quickly. I should have done it over a 3 year period, (rather than 3 weeks), as she had been on the meds for 12 years. (If she had never started the meds, and instead been started on natural treatments, I’m sure she would never have needed the meds to begin with). After stabilized on the meds, again, she went to a naturopath, and the natural therapies were then combined with the meds. Along with the new, non-gluten, dairy-free diet, her side-effects from the drugs are gone. She feels better than she ever has before. Hopefully we can taper her off her meds again, but this time over a much longer time frame. For those with metabolic imbalances, these naturopathic methods seem to be the solution. For those who have a mental illness caused by psychological factors, such as a nervous breakdown, psychotherapy may be all that is needed.

]]> http://www.courtreference.com/court-reference-blog/2008/04/11/mental-illness-case-information/comment-page-1/#comment-477 AngelGroup Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:42:25 +0000 http://www.courtreference.com/court-reference-blog/2008/04/11/mental-illness-case-information/#comment-477 Mental instability is also created and perpetuated in the court systems...especially the family courts where - in cases of domestic violence - 58% of the time, children are given to the abusive parent rather than the protective parent. We've been watching this happen firsthand in Hawaii. Imagine the mental traumas that are caused in the minds of survivors of family violence when they are forced to hand their children over to their abuser, by order of the court...horrible. Mental instability is also created and perpetuated in the court systems…especially the family courts where – in cases of domestic violence – 58% of the time, children are given to the abusive parent rather than the protective parent. We’ve been watching this happen firsthand in Hawaii. Imagine the mental traumas that are caused in the minds of survivors of family violence when they are forced to hand their children over to their abuser, by order of the court…horrible.

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