are patients in psych. hospitals forced to take medications?

absolutley. they stab you with them even if your arms and legs are tied down. this happens all the time in jails and prisons. this happens at your local hospital. you dont even need to be violent, you just have to say no and they will attack you. the very same doctor that looks down your child's throught will stab a teenager into unconsiousness in the next room for being intoxicated. face it...doctors are government employees. there is no service to patients from these people.

wow, so sorry for all people who have suffered a hospital. what a serious waste from your lifetime. i would not stand for it. when you get out. wait at least a month and make sure you get that hospital for what they did to you. you are worth it. i have read some people who have had ect given to them against their will. nurses, blindly and deafly wheeling them down a hallway. all the time they were screaming in their heads. we give out awards to people, i think the country needs to do something for society to bad people and what they choose to do for a living. in the hospital there is no cop protecting you from an abusive orderly, there is no brother or sister to punch the nurse in the face for you, there is no best friend to kick the doctor's ass, there is no priest (w/e) to push away some racial person you hate, no mom to tell you there is nothing wrong with you and no dad to scoff at the obscene. even in the tv show frasier, notice their dad is a cop? the only thing that could make sense.

If I were to be admitted into a psych hospital. And were trying to harm myself with the intention of not killing myself, while refusing medication. Would I be forced to take medication? Would the doctors assume that any potential harm is worth forced medication? Or is justification of your self-mutilation possible?

If I were to have the ability to self-mutilate taken away, while in a psych hospital, I would probably go pretty damn insane, making myself 'worse' which would probably lead to doctors forcing medication on me.