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Involuntary Treatment Explained | Mental Health Act of Australian Capital Territory



Involuntary Treatment Explained | Mental Health Act of Australian Capital Territory

In this video, Dr Syl, a psychiatry registrar from Australia, explains the Mental Health Act 2015 of Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and its provisions for the involuntary treatment of people with mental illness.

Dr Syl breaks down the legal framework of the ACT’s Mental Health Act 2015, discussing the circumstances that warrant involuntary treatment, the roles of medical professionals and the courts, and the rights of patients.

Whether you’re a healthcare professional, a patient or a concerned citizen, this video offers a comprehensive guide to the Mental Health Act 2015 of Australian Capital Territory and the involuntary treatment of people with mental illness. So, tune in to learn more about this critical aspect of mental healthcare in Australia.
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  1. @TheNurseWhoLovedMe89 on

    You make a 35 minute video sound too long – the longer videos are the best! 😁 I settle in to doing the housework while I listen so the housework isn’t as boring 😅😋🤗

    You mentioned potentially talking about ECT and other advanced care directives – I would love videos on those things! It’s nice to hear about medical care (especially mental health care) with information specific to Australia 🇦🇺🙂

  2. @99snuff on

    Hey Dr, I’m curious, is there much difference between the mental health acts within different states?

    For eg MH act in WA and NSW

  5. @laurisawitch0707 on

    I really wish more care was voluntary. It can be hard to get the level of care you need outside a crisis situaton and when you're in crisis it can be hard to have the self awareness to advocate for yourself even if you would have willingly gone days or weeks before you become too ill to advocate. In the US even if you're really manic or really psychotic they wont hold you unless you become a very very literal harm (risk of murder) to yourself or others.

  6. @mobee9181 on

    wow. "human rights are made up". Really neat, nothing I dont expect from a psychiatrist though. Glad you guys are saying it out loud now. I hope at some point, you guys are stopped.

  7. @mosaicsnmaple on

    If a person is capable of advocating for themselves and have not harmed themselves or others, they should be able to make decisions in their treatment. Full stop. I refused an anti-psychotic to help with my panic disorder. The doctor felt very certain that it was the best option, but they aren't the ones with the disorder.

  11. @ox8833 on

    You have no clue what you are talking about.
    In patient care can be up to 7,500 to 21,000 dollars. I don’t know a sane person who has money to pay for that and most of our wonderful American healthcare doesn’t cover any of that.

  15. @BuddyBoi523 on

    It was horrifying when my friend that didn't believe he was mentally unwell and had repeated attacked his family based on delusions and living in squalor was released after 3 days and I know he didn't get the help needed. It's so hard when doctors don't believe family on actual facts but believe the patient's delusions because they sound realistic enough. Like he's still pretty stuck in his ways and doesn't know what he did wrong and is more resistant to treatment now.

  16. @consent2breedingu on

    They gave me four injections and I wasn’t a threat to anyone or myself and they didn’t check my heart or get my medical history before forcing me to take the injections. I didn’t consent and I still dont. What can you do if you’re being discriminated against and it doesn’t happen to any other criminal in Australia?

  18. @SimbaandBuujiBuuji on

    Wow even claiming your computer is hacked is seen as a mental illness, these bastards have the law on their side and it's a. Sick twisted law that allows healthy people to be involuntary incarcerated in mental wards, just on the hearsay of members of the community.!!!Or if I say I'm well and don't want treatment, pyschiatrists can call family members even ex's, and lick me up on THEIR opion alone!!! Can you see how this is corrupt! That if family or ex want to silence you how easily they can do it!!

  20. @lawrencedaVidbishton9071 on

    its like a nasty group or community of a culture like that of a crowd in a riot a crowd could be classed as a community so if 1 was to be said mental because he is not rioting but is the 1 subject to the crowd mentality that is a thing that does exist then whos right whos rong ? ? if the crowd are rioting and the crowd are officials then whos right ? the 1 individual is to become friendly with government having my self bearing witness to how an entire country can change like a wave very fast and for this i can see why a politician does at times feel the stress he surely would be paid for ??? ??? thank fully facebook has made everyone politicians so the most controversial is the most load carrying person thou if i find out that i have been put on a treatment program by being tortured wile those who pay them self for paying themself like i would do if i was them is straight forward wrong if it judging on written language as this is no freedom to speak and is definitely a country being brought to its end has it is not mental to say anything has long has it is not like that of of saying fire in a building or bomb etcetera on public transport etcetera then their is no right to do what is done more than it should be personally i should shut up but you are reliant on me to save your ass for free by saying as i feel i should no body should diagnose any 1 by social media in any way shape or form has it is a entertainment platform and is used to vent the alphabet has so many words and letters in combinations that form meaning and different meaning to different readers as is provable by saying the word (trans) what does this word make you think of more than likely whatever is within your familiar memory being my advertising formula !!!! so that is what why and money you are stealing or shifting away with credit of i will take you to crown court and i will win for obvious reasons of keeping this great country standard above that of a corrupt money grabbing twisted sell your mover for a $1) just because you can bully people by shear number and power and wealth of the debt the future is being put in. does really not mean you should some of us are not children in the head and can see shit when its being thrown.

  24. @EddieGillies-lj8dp on

    Involuntary treatment is a bunch of egotistical nutjobs imposing their will upon another without consent. The arrogance of psychiatrists to believe they hold the baseline of all reasonable human behaviour. The profession has the highest burnout rate in medicine. Psychiatry is a systematic and barbaric religion.

  28. @KeepItSimpleSailor on

    Anytime you force someone to comply with ‘interventions’ against their will, you are creating more problems than solving them. It’s dystopian that citizens are forced into care. Every single time society does this sort of thing, some people manipulate and connive and abuse. This sort of nonsense is patronising at best, … and at worst ……………

  30. @Adam-qt1sz on

    This guy is a corrupt criminal. It is not legal to force a person to see a psychiatrists, force "medication" or force ECT. They are not safe, appropriate or effective "trestments", and do nothing to address the perceived problems, and generally cause harm and no benefit, and only worsen behaviour. And, what he said about insight and capacity is a lie.

  31. @aethylwulfeiii6502 on

    The biological knowledge of the diseases that psychiatrists have doesn’t justify forced medication in most patients: these doctors have literally no idea what is neurologically wrong, and they could end up doing more harm than good, and have no way of knowing what will work and what won’t. It’s a crapshoot. Their patient could have Anti-NMdA receptor encephalitis, pellagra, Vitamin b12 deficiency, narcolepsy, Kliene Levine syndrome or dementia and the neuroleptics will make things worse,
    For example giving the B52, which has all sorts of nasty side effects, even the Benadryl can cause a higher incidence of dementia.The haldol can cause and will eventually cause every EPS symptom and even NMS. And the Ativan is freaking terrible. I almost became an involuntary patient for not wanting to sign off on taking gabapentin becuase it’s basically “alcohol in a pill” and when I saw the psychiatrist that is what she called it verbatim. Did the doctors in the hospital tell me what the side effects of haldol would be? Nope. If I knew I would have taken a more active role to take a more modern medication. It was the medical moral equivalent of not disclosing an STD to a partner.

  32. @RANGIT920 on

    Great video mate, helped me understand a lot.
    I have a friend that has lived with me for over a decade, he was late for his injection as he works 7 days a week driving a taxi, he did go and get it but the police still came and picked him up from my house and told me nothing other than they were taking him to get another injection, I didn't hear from him for 3 days as they involuntary locked him at the hospital saying he was aggressive, I have never seen anything in all the time I have known him, I went to see him and could tell he was only annoyed because of the way they were treating him, to me I didn't seem warranted or necessary, is there something I can do to help my friend?
    Thank you and hopefully you can suggest something I can do to help him.

  37. @usavolleyball1035 on

    I just have one question………when you restrain and sedate a patient against their will…..how do you expect them to trust you and start healing ?…..I mean….I'm talking from experience….I had depression and I attempted suicide….and they took me to the hospital….I told them I don't wanna be there….they brought 5 big men….they pinned me to the bed and restrained me….they stripped me naked to put me in a gown and they sedated me….and I didn't trust them ever again….I just lied to them and told them I was fine and after 5 days they let me go…..

    So why do you do it ?
    And don't just say because we don't want them to go out there and hurt themselves…..because then what about long term traumas….

    Like I was so traumatised that I didn't even went to a doctor again and now I'm much worse and much more depressed