From Admission to “treatment”
UIC Hospital
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The UIC doctors did not tell anyone, that putting someone on medication, would most likely result in the person smoking cigarettes. Now, after 3 years of psychiatric hell, a young man got off of meds for 8 months, and then was irritable when he stopped smoking. What should have been a couple of days to chill from the nicotine withdrawal, after having been on powerful psychotropic medications for 2+ years … resulting in putting him on Risperadone. 13 days later, he is desperate to get out of the hospital, saying he was going to commit suicide.
The admissions process was basically flawed, after hours and hours in the emergency room, a social worker came to get information. What should have been common irritability due to nicotine withdrawal, was incorrectly described as, “agitated like a “light switch going on and off.” This was not true.
And, nothing referred to nicotine withdrawal. This was intellectually dishonest from the beginning.
The doctors seem to want to treat the auditory hallucinations, that were caused by the psychotropic medications they coerced him to take, to “do better in school.” It is stated as a side effect of the medications!
What is UIC Hospital’s response? A doctor ordered that he not be able to phone his closest relative.
(405 ILCS 5/2-103) (from Ch. 91 1/2, par. 2-103)
Sec. 2-103.
Except as provided in this Section, a recipient who resides in a mental health or developmental disabilities facility shall be permitted unimpeded, private, and uncensored communication with persons of
his choice by mail, telephone and visitation.
(b) Reasonable times and places for the use of telephones and for visits
may be established in writing by the facility director.
(c) Unimpeded, private and uncensored communication by mail, telephone,
and visitation may be reasonably restricted by the facility director only in order to protect the recipient or others from harm, harassment or
intimidation, provided that notice of such restriction shall be given to all recipients upon admission. When communications are restricted, the
facility shall advise the recipient that he has the right to require the facility to notify the affected parties of the restriction, and to notify
such affected party when the restrictions are no longer in effect.
What is the reason these honest healthcare professionals give for preventing a ‘patient’ from calling his nearest relative? The one he called at least 10 times, asking desperately to be brought home. The one he spends the most time with. The only family member who saw him for the two months before going to the hospital. The family member who encouraged him to go to the hospital.
They have changed his personality with psychotropic drugs and isolation from family and friends, and now claim that he has agreed to their treatment program. This is categorically not true, as it is a continuation of the tricking that was done upon admission, when he was urged to sign in voluntarily, as a way that he would have more control to get out.