Your Thoughtful Therapist

Hello everyone!!....how you all are doing?....hope everything is going with the flow... Today I am going to talk about a very serious and important yet very wrongly used (especially at present time) part of mental health. It's high time that we should prevent it firmly. We all know that in each and every different professions have some legal and ethical principles to maintain and guide the mankind into a right direction; likewise, there are legal and ethical issues in mental health as well. Law comes in contact with mental health at many points, such as admission of a mentally ill person in a mental hospital, crime committed by a mentally ill person, validity of marriage, witness, will, consent, right to vote and drug dependence. Forensic psychiatry deals with the legal aspects of psychiatry. In this post, I will talk about one of the 2 parts of legal aspects in mental health, which is -  Civil Responsibility There is usually a presumption in the favor of sanity and the contrary mu