Has anyone been on a (Community) Compulsory Treatment Order?

How long were you on it for?
Were you able to challenge it and persuade a tribunal to revoke it?
(I'm considering challenging my CTO right now so that I have more control over medication)

As in a community section 3.

I have moved this post to the Anti-Psych Forum as I feel it is better suited for that forum, but I've left a shadow so that it can be viewed on both forums.

I wasn't, but I have been through rehabs and mental health facilities with patients who have been court-ordered to complete a program successfully or face jail time.
Some were trying to straighten out their thinking before facing prison anyway. I did admire and respect these people for wanting to heal somewhat and prepare themselves spiritually before doing hard time.
All I can wish for you is success in completing your requirements. Keep your head together and do what they say.
You might be able to negotiate your meds. Ask. The worst they can say is no.
Best of luck to you.

Yes. I was on Assisted Outpatient Treatment, which amounted to forced drugging-- forcing me to take Geodon and Zoloft. They had all sorts of euphemisms for it-- such as "Services" for Seriously Mentally Ill, Medication Monitoring, etc.

The best advice I can give you is to hire a private attorney, if that is at all possible for you. The staff at the s.m.i. "clinic" I had to attend so they could "monitor" my medication compliance, literally folded and gave up on me before the hearing came up to renew the court order, and that only happened because my lawyer was filing motions and subpoenaing all their records about me, and mentioning a possible malpractice lawsuit against their psychiatrist personally. Otherwise I am fairly sure the kangaroo court that is the mental health court would have rubber stamped whatever the clinic psychiatrist wanted them to do.

My parents also hired a private psychiatrist to help get me off the court order, and later to taper off the drugs. I have to be careful what I say here, but let me just say that I had already learned my lesson earlier with previous psychiatric professionals that you have to be very careful what you tell them. I learned that if said I was no longer hearing voices, and if I no longer talked about delusional thoughts I had, in other words, if I took advantage of the very subjective nature of psychiatry, and did not say the things that make it easy to diagnose me with schizophrenia, then it helped my case.

The last resort is just focusing on the side effects of the drugs. Try to make it clear that you are mentally able to make an informed decision about your treatment, and that you no longer want to take the drugs which are causing you the side effects.

I know one guy who was in my group therapy class at the clinic who was unable to hire a private attorney, but he made use of their own built in grievance procedures to keep switching to new medications due to side effects issues, and eventually, they got tired of dealing with him, and although they kept him in the s.m.i. program, and they do still keep in touch with him through phone calls and home visits and compulsory therapy sessions, they no longer force him to take medications, as long as he no longer displays positive symptoms of schizophrenia.

Yes me. I seethed and bubbled with bad temper until I realised my new psych doc had found the perfect combo of drugs. What the hell can you do after that except swallow your knob and send her an xmas card? Keep an open mind cos your ccto might lead you to bump into a really good doc. If not then you will just have to kill them all. LOL

sammymaguire wrote:Yes me. I seethed and bubbled with bad temper until I realised my new psych doc had found the perfect combo of drugs. What the hell can you do after that except swallow your knob and send her an xmas card? Keep an open mind cos your ccto might lead you to bump into a really good doc. If not then you will just have to kill them all. LOL

Hmmm... doesn't seem like the perfect drug combo is working.

YESS. I had several lawsuits before I got out of the sick program. I was 16 years old at that time. The good thing is that I learned about laws myself. Do your own research when they lock you up, know your rights. Even a child can do that. I was in it for 4 months.

Chainsaw wrote:YESS. I had several lawsuits before I got out of the sick program. I was 16 years old at that time. The good thing is that I learned about laws myself. Do your own research when they lock you up, know your rights. Even a child can do that. I was in it for 4 months.

I would love to know how you did it without a lawyer. I would like to avoid the expense next time.

Which laws helped you?

In general terms, what did you say at the hearing?

Where did you do this research? What did you find?

Which rights helped you?

Forced Drugging Defense Package http://www.mindfreedom.org/campaign/shield/forced-drug-defense-pkg/ForcedDruggingDefensePkg.pdf/view

PsychRights' Do-It-Yourself Forced Drugging Defense Package http://psychrights.org/litigation/ForcedDruggingDefensePkg.pdf


Compulsory Treatment Order... Whats next will dentists force treatment on people the arbitrarily decide have bad teeth ? F psychiatry.