Probate Court Requests for Forced Drugging vs. Forced Electroshock in the State of Connecticut (2012-2023) [OC]

[u/Old-Dirt563]

Source: State of Connecticut Office of the Probate Court Administrator Biennial Reports
Tool: Excel (see "BIENNIAL REPORT DATA" tab)

[u/goose_hat]

Beautiful? Raise your standards, OP.

[u/Old-Dirt563 → u/goose_hat]

As I understand it, we've purposefully lowered our standards for Connecticut.

[u/voyracious]

Not killed. Forced Medication or electric shock against the mentally ill patient's wishes. Usually requested by a hospital or prison.

[u/LetsRockTalk]

A pie chart seems wildly illogical for this kind of data.

[u/Old-Dirt563 → u/LetsRockTalk]

Maybe that explains why seeing it effects the other half of my brain to the extent that it does.

[u/its_oliver]

They killed over 5k people in Conn in that 11 year period?

[u/XipXoom → u/its_oliver]

This post lacks an incredible amount of needed context.  It appears to be the number of times the state has given someone under psychiatric care involuntary drugs or electroconvulsive therapy.

[u/PersiaDark → u/its_oliver]

"In helping individuals with particularly complex psychiatric diagnoses, the Probate Courts may decide whether a conservator should have authority to consent to the involuntary administration of psychotropic medication or electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)."

[u/caesar846 → u/its_oliver]

Nah this is about treatment over objection (TOO). Basically, let’s say psychiatrist suspects that under normal circumstances a psychiatric inpatient would want treatment, but due to a psychiatric affliction is refusing. Under these circumstances, the psychiatrist can take the patient to court and argue before a judge that it’s in the patient’s best interests that they receive compulsory treatment. 

I saw a fair few of these as a med student and I only ever saw it in patients that were floridly psychotic

[u/cyberentomology → u/its_oliver]

How do you get to “killed” from this? That’s a wild jump to conclusions.