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That sounds like a horrible experience, and I hope you friend is being treated better now. To be charitable and more specific, If you are stable enough there's

That sounds like a horrible experience, and I hope you friend is being treated better now. To be charitable and more specific, If you are stable enough there's nothing technically stopping you from not taking prescribed medication and self medicating - as long as you remain stable enough to not warrant involuntary treatment. The obvious risk is if your prescribed medication (or a combination of prescribed and self prescribed medication) is making an impact, you could get worse. From this comment it sounds like there's a lot you're leaving out of this story, but I'd like like be caucious of making generalising statements from specific personally related scenarios.

tcj_phx 4y ago
> From this comment it sounds like there's a lot you're leaving out of this story There's more than can be covered in a little comment. I have the psychiatrists' September 2015 affidavits, filed in support of their petition for involuntary treatment. They say, essentially, "patient expects us to believe she was psychotic because she was drinking 2 bottles of liquor a day, and using cocaine. We know this is not the case because we previously got her 'stabilized' in 2008 and 2010 on haloperidol. She obviously does not appreciate that she is broken and requires anti-psychotics for the rest of her life." My videos from August 2015 prove that she was actually fine before she ran out of alcohol, and that whatever deterioration the doctors think they're treating is entirely caused by palliative psychiatric drugs.