Given that the SSRI messes with their ability to make motivated self determined choices, they don't have full freedom.
That's a strong claim to make without a shred of evidence.
There are also a lot of cases where a person might be forcefully hospitalised.
Are you saying this shouldn't be done? Do you understand how or why it is done?
Part of the idea of having a doctor as an expert is also that the doctor will make choices.
I think there's this concept of "informed consent". Doctors are expected to make choices, yes, but at no time is the patient rendered powerless in these decisions.
I don't think that anybody here advocates that you shouldn't have the choice.
It was a rhetorical device. Don't twist it to make it something else. Replace "me" with anyone else.
Are you saying this shouldn't be done? Do you understand how or why it is done?
Given that I don't know where the people I'm talking with live I know that I don't have full knowledge of how it's done. If I tell someone to go to a local doctor, I'm not sure what the doctor will do with them.
A doctor in a small town in Utah, in Washington, in Berlin, in Moscow, in some small Russian down, in Mumbai or in some small Indian town.
As to why people get hospitalized I think there are three whys: 1) Why did doctors get that power historically? 2) Why did nobody p...
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