Does the right to confidentiality in mental health begin once in the door of a public agency before signing up
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Yes,  although your presences in the building is not necessarily private, all information given upon signing in is confidential.
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They read them there rights prior to interrogation.  If you don't ask for a lawyer or exercise your right to remain silent, you have waived your right to counsel.
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You can possibly get access if there is a secret question to answer or your have an email address the info can be  sent to in cases like this.\n\nIf not you'll have to contact the department that handles this issue.
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No, have you ever been checked for mental health problems?
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Provided you are not being checked into a facility against your will, nor showing up stating clearly & repeatedly that you are going to hurt someone (including yourself) any reputable mental health professional will want to start you in therapy.  A psychiatrist may want to put you on medication, but medication is only really neccessary if you feel that your life is out of control.  Apart from medication, ongoing therapy is the sort of help they should offer.  Good luck.
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No. But in many states they can be committed under the Baker Act for 72 hours.\nCall the cops and ask them about it.\nGuardianship is only for people who are vegitables.\nIf everyone were under guardianship if they were a danger to themselves, half the people in the country would be under someone else's guardianship.\n\nThink of all the alcoholics and drug addicts who are a danger to themselves, as well as all the people who are so severly depressed they are suicidal. There are millions and millions of them, and they are not under someone's guardianship.\n\nTwo doctors must certify that someone is unable to care for himself and needs a guardian.\nSchizophrenics do not even have guardians, even when they are completely incapable of taking care of themselves.\nSimply being a danger to yourself does not mean you need to have a court appointed guardian.\n\nOnly someone who is totally unable to function at all to care for themself is a candidate for guardianship.
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Probably. Here in New Mexico we have an agency called protective Services. You might try local Mental Health office.
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public health department... federally funded and they have to keep it confidential.
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Yes you can be sectioned under the mental health act anywhere in Britain. And it's "anywhere" not any-wear.
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Contact the department of job and human services.Find out your rights.
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Objectives: Section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 empowers the police to detain those suspected of being mentally ill in public places, and convey them to a place of safety. In practice, accident and emergency (A&E) departments are often used. The authors assessed levels of knowledge of section 136 between A&E doctors, senior nurses, and police constables. \nUnder the Mental Health Act 1983 Section 136 “if a constable finds…a person who appears to him to be suffering from mental disorder and to be in immediate need of care or control…he may…remove that person to a place of safety”. A place of safety is defined as ‘hospital, police station, mental nursing home or residential home or any other suitable place’. It is widely recognised that police cells are not appropriate places of safety for people with mental health problems but in many areas a police station may still be the first and not the last resort as a place of safety under the Mental Health Act due to a lack of other resources.
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If the information did not come about because of a patient-doctor relationship, then there is no confidentiality. However:\n\nWhat business does the doctor have telling the employer? If he's a doctor (co-worker) doing doctor work for her employer, then it would be odd if he wasn't in some way her doctor, and therefore obliged to treat her information with confidence.\n\nIf he was in some way her doctor, then he would be combining what he knew from doctor visits with what he know from the bar, and so spilling some part of confidential information.\n\nIf he had not treated her, but just had a bar conversation once upon a time with her, how qualified is he to judge her mental state, to the point where he would have her suspended/fired?\n\nOTOH, if you're sitting in a bar with someone, doctor or not, and they confess to you "sometimes I just feel like driving the loaded bus off the high point of the bridge, I'm so depressed", I would think you have an obligation to tell someone.\n\n"...until the psychologist feels she is fit to return to work."??? Now suddenly he IS her doctor until she's better? Having stuck his nose into the case and being an employee of one party and snitched on the other, he's hardly qualified to give an impartial judgement of her condition later.\n\nBesides, what happened to the Hippocratic oath of "...first, do no harm..." if he's getting her suspended?\n\nI would say MYOB is the first rule of a professional involved in a non-professional social situation. Unless she was a real danger to others (and explicitly said so) it's not up to the psychologist to butt in.\n\nOTOH, if someone said something that threatened the life or livelihood of others around her, ANYONE has an obligation to snitch unless there is a specific confidentiality in force.\n\nIf they simply threaten suicide themselves, you shouldn't tell anyone (except, say, her doctor who is obliged to keep it confidential) without their permission. telling the whole world will just make matters worse.
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Was anything ever signed at anytime explaining their rights to do that? If not, then NO! They have no right to get into an employees personal belongings. \n\nIs there an HR department or a higher person this can be taken to? \n\nA few years ago I got very sick at work. My face was very pale, my pupils were dialated and I was sweating, the medics came, thought I had a stroke, it was low blood sugar, but that was not good enough for my supervisor, she went through my desk while I was gone, someone said that she was thinking that I was on drugs. I turned her in and HR said that she HAD NO RIGHT to do that and she got repremanded very much for it. I was taken in and drug tested but everything turned out fine. \n\nThat is personal property and if you did not sign anything saying they can search you at anytime, then it is not their right, they do not have permission to do that. That is why you sign papers. You give them authorization to do this or that. Make the manager show you the paper giving them permission to do that. \n\nThat's odd, hoped it helped
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Probably with a medical discharge.  I am not sure there would be any benefits since military service did not cause the disorder, unless the person is at a point that they can retire.  The first seargeant is the person who should be able to find the answer.
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Only if you are a professional and legally licensed to do so; (e.i. psychiatrist, legal advisor, consultant, etc.)\n\n  Hope this helped.
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It looks as though you have gotten a lot of good answers already.  I just wanted to tell you that I am in the medical profession and I can tell you for a fact that anything you tell your doctor is confidential.  However, if the psychiatrist, doctor, psychologist, etc. feels that you pose a risk to yourself or to someone else, they will report you.  \n\nWhat happens is that you'll be placed on what they call a 51/50 hold, where you will be admitted to a psychiatric facility and then interviewed and assessed by an appropriate staff memeber (doctor, psychiatrist, etc).  If they agree with your doctor's assessment, then you will be held for a few days until you have been placed on medication and stabilized on those meds.  \n\nI know this sounds scary, but this is actually a good thing, because it gives you a safe place to stay where you'll get the help you need, and you will most likely be placed back on antidepressants.  \n\nI'm not sure why your doctor took you off Prozac, but doctors and psychiatrists are the only people who can put you on medications, so a counselor will not place you back on any antidepressant. \n\nOne other thing to note is that if you are having suicidal thoughts, but aren't actively planning to commit suicide, then your doctor may not place you on a 51/50.  It all depends on the doctor's assessment.  I would advise you to be as truthful as possible with your doctor, because that is the only way he or she can help you.  \n\nI wish you the best of luck.
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emergency petitons for psychiatric evaluations are NOT an arrest.. nor are they availible for review by an employer.. the American Disablities Act prevents this.. and gives you ground for a law suit if it is used against you.. you do need to make your employer aware of your conditon.. \n\nif he fires you.. you will file a claim with the ADA.. chances are they will deny your claim if you didnt make them aware of your illness prior to employment.. after the ADA reviews this .. you will be given a "right to sue" letter.. (whether the ADA find validity in your claim or not-- you still have to go through this) \n\nonly after the proceedings with the ADA can you get a lawyer involved.. he will argue that you didnt make your employer aware of your illness prior to employment because they would have not hired you in the first place.. \n\nmany lawyers work probono and have a field day with employers like these.. \n\nbottom line.. mental illnesses such as Bipolar.. are a disabilty furthermore.. you may also be eligible for Social Security.. so you dont have to put up with narrowminded employers..