Amend or abolish the Mental Health Act SA

Amend or abolish the Mental Health Act SA

Started
26 November 2019
Petition to
Stephen Wade MLC
Signatures: 110Next goal: 200
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Why this petition matters

Started by Janita T

My name is Janita and I am a South Australian currently subject to a CTO or Community Treatment Order which allows powerful psychiatrists to be able to forcibly drug me against my will with toxic,  dangerous and brain damaging neuroleptics. I, along with hundreds of other mental health victims, have no legal right to refuse these drugs and thus we have lost our right to bodily and personal autonomy. 

Like others in the same position as me,  these drugs have serious side effects, including akathisia/psychomotor agitation, weight gain, anhedonia/depression, that negatively affect my quality of life and mean I am forced to carry medication on my person at all times to quell the side effects they cause.

I cannot live a normal life on these drugs and it is impacting every aspect of my life and I have no dignity, freedom or enjoyment of life.

I call upon the South Australian minister for Mental Health, Stephen Wade MLC, to amend the current Mental Health Act 2009 in South Australia to abolish forced drugging of mental health victims/psychiatric survivors and to severely restrict psychiatric power.

I call upon the minister to reject the medical model of psychiatry in favour of counseling,  psychology and talk therapy.

Please, if you yourself, or a loved one or friend is subject to one of these orders, and you disagree with this, or you're a fair minded person who believes in human rights and justice, please sign this petition and create freedom, justice and dignity for psychiatric victims/survivors.

On my behalf and on behalf of those who cannot speak out, thank you so much for your support for vulnerable people's human rights and dignity.

 

 

 

 

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Decision makers

  • Stephen Wade MLC