such as forced admission and treatment, seclusion and restraint, as well as the administering of antipsychotic medication, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and psychosurgery without informed consent. She was so frightened that she began to struggle, and the psychiatric medical staff violently attacked her, restraining her limbs. In psychiatric wards, coercive restraint is condoned by society, and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is severely violated and ignored. [3]The CCHR Taiwan (Citizens Commission on Human Rights Taiwan) calls on the authorities to minimize the coercive restraint of this near-lynching and strictly record and control it. “The global message is clear: there can be no good mental health without human rights.” [4][1] https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240025707 (p.38)[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/japan-mental-health-patients/2021/06/18/e07334f2-c2a7-11eb-89a4-b7ae22aa193e_story.html [3] https://previous.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=26039&LangID=E [4] https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G20/094/45/PDF/G2009445.pdf?OpenElement一名精神科受害者的心聲

Source: Washington Post October 02, 2022 14:19 UTC