The Ethical Issues in Mental Health & Law --- Greatly Exacerbated by BIG SHORTAGES & Failure to Provide Self-Determination in Evidence-Based Treatments

Generally when we say someone is REFUSING Treatment -- it is a narrow slice of what is actually considered EVIDENCED-BASED TREATMENT.

Further, one could just go with what is on the SAMHSA website and that is much more than is available to most patients.
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This argument is NOT going to solve all the issues out there BUT --- it could solve more than we're acknowledging.

So ethical conundrums of Healthcare Professionals and Lawyers are CHEAPER than ADDRESSING the BIG SHORTAGES in Housing & Intensive Services for People Experiencing  Significant Cognitive Disability.

• ​But those ETHICAL CONUNDRUMS are also NEVER ENDING if we fail to deal with the REAL ISSUES:
  • ​The need to address BIG SHORTAGES,
  • Provide rights of Self-Determination in selecting Evidenced-Based Treatments where possible, and
  • Provide STRENGTH-BASED Approaches for Neuro-Diverse People who often struggle with Executive Functioning, but often have ATYPICAL STRENGTHS that go INSUFFICIENTLY RECOGNIZED, DEVELOPED and EMPLOYED.

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Conjecture:   It seems that there is a lot more going on with DYSREGULATION of the IMMUNE SYSTEM in NEURO-DEVELOPMENTAL and PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS than one would expect. 

Most significantly, according to Top Researchers the Immune System implicates --- SOCIAL BEHAVIOR. 

Further, this isn't just "IMPLICATES" --- this is being conceptualized as the IMMUNE SYSTEM CONTROLS SOCIAL BEHAVIOR. 

University of Virginia School of Medicine
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Shocking New Role Found for Immune System:  Controlling Social Interactions (2016)

This seems to fit into:

• Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria --- emotions often normal in every way except INTENSITY
• Blurred Neuro-Developmental and Psychiatric Disorders
• Common Sensory Processing Problems and Loss of Control of Inputs, and
• The Old Friends Hypothesis --- modern Immune Systems with lack of diversity of microbiota have become in some cases ULTRA SENSITIVE.

Stephen Covey & Temple Grandin: 
Sometimes Great Minds Do Think Alike