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In Partial, Grudging Defense Of The Hearing Voices Movement

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The Interaction Between Medication and Psycho Social Support

The interaction between medication and psycho social support is complicated. There's usually some dose of medication that will make a patient stop doing dangerous and desruptive things. But this dose might not leave them very y or able to do anything at all. This forms a difficult and ethically questionable traid off. How do you balance the patient's own comfort with the comfort of the people around him who don't want him being disruptive? Part of the role of psychosocial support is to give the patient an environment where people are willing to tolerate the occasional weird or disruptive thing. I think there's room for the hearing voices movement and things like it in the mental health tent, as long as they don

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