Tapering off while a friend gets forcibly injected

Sign up to get updates about my book coming out in early 2022 https://bit.ly/3GWd1EHAnd I just got a phone call from my brain twin, and found out that for the last two weeks, he hasn't had his independence. He's in the psych ward. And I don't really know the American system very well, but something about a 15 day hold, and then 30 day hold possibly after that. And more even I don't know. So I'm going to go down and visit him next week, and also drop off the electric car that he lent me. And I'm just sort of wondering what can be done to start to create some of these medication free respite centers, because without them, we just get funneled into the mental health system, and he's getting injected with medications. And it's pretty hard to taper off that when one is having people inject things into someone. I had control over my medications, and I was able to taper off of them. But if I was being injected, and someone's driving me there to get my injection and things like that, or I'm in the hospital getting injected, it's pretty hard to make a self directed choice to not be on them. So I really don't know what to do. And maybe I can kind of hope that sharing some of this journey I've been through has shown a little bit that there is a need for those sorts of things because I was able to stay out of the psych ward in January because I had all the wonderful relationships at the clubhouse. And they sort of acted as a one day temporary respite for me to gather myself enough to go and stay with my family and just sort of medicate myself with extra Seroquel without having to go to the hospital and be re traumatized by that. And maybe get a doctor that would drug me up on something that I didn't want. But this way, I was able to just take extra Seroquel for a week or so and then go about my life. And then I managed to get to California because of that. Whereas that crisis happened on something like January 23. clubhouse, respite, medications, system, create, talk, psych, week, drugs, california, relationships, seroquel, support, hospital, center, stay, supportive, dialogue, people, wardSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/bipolar_inquiry. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.