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"If I push on this, I will alienate myself from this clearly mentally unstable patient and at that point there is no chance to help them"
It's literally how mental health professionals are trained.
De-escalating with mentally troubled people.
Step 1: agree with them
Step 2: Patient is now the president
Imagine if someone snuck some therapy pills into the president's cofifeffifeffee.
reminds me of that film where someone puts LSD into the water of some military base. Then everyone chills and start rolling in the grass, smelling flowers or smt.
Men Who Stare At Goats?
exactly
Doesn't surprise me, and that's actually quite smart.
You're right.
It depends on the reason for their agitation. If they’re having a paranoid moment then you need ti tell them the truth to help them out of it.
If you lie they might pick up on it and that kills the trust they have in you.
You don’t have to press them to take meds they don’t want to take, but if you lie about why you’re stopping (“maybe you’re right”), instead of telling the truth about why you’re stopping (“I don’t want to break our therapeutic connection by pushing you”), it can make things backslide.