A self-destructive care: self-reports of people who experienced coercive measures and their suggestions for alternatives

In involuntary psychiatric admission and treatment, people are treated like children.

“being treated like children [15,45,46]”

Involuntary psychiatric admission and treatment is traumatizing.

“Involuntary psychiatric admission and treatment has been described elsewhere in the literature as traumatizing [45,47]”

In involuntary psychiatric admission and treatment, coerced medication administration is a taken-for-granted practice.

“coerced medication administration as a “taken-for-granted” practice [45]”

If people had been listened to and had their needs respected during the time of crisis, treatment could have occurred without coercive measures.

“Qualitative accounts elsewhere further affirm the perspectives of participants in this study: if they had been listened to and had their needs respected during the time of crisis, treatment could have occurred without coercive measures [45].”

In involuntary psychiatric admission and treatment, people are subjected to chaotic and frightening care environments.

“research from other jurisdictions has found that in the context of involuntary psychiatric admission and treatment, people are subjected to chaotic and frightening care environments [44,45]”

Involuntary psychiatric admission and treatment leads people to avoid care in the future.

“and leading people to avoid care in the future [45,49]”

Clinicians listening to, understanding, and respecting patients builds trust and improves quality of care during psychiatric treatment.

“The importance of clinicians listening to, understanding, and respecting patients [15,46] to build trust to improve the quality of care during psychiatric treatment [45] is a common theme in the literature on involuntary psychiatric treatment.”