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The proposed Mental Health Bill 2004 still fails to acknowledge and promote emotional needs |
| Written by Eleanor Tyrrell | |
| Monday, 27 November 2006 | |
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"The proposed Mental Health Bill 2004 still has serious flaws", says Ivan Tyrrell, director of the Human Givens Institute. "Until there is general agreement about the basic principles of primary care – it is there to help people get their innate physical and emotional needs met – policies about mental health will remain mired in muddle and controversy. These innate needs are ‘human givens’, every individual's genetic inheritance (our biology determines that we cannot avoid needing food, water, attention, status, connection to others, being stretched in life etc.) and this should be the starting point for all policy decisions. “This is because, how well our needs are met clearly depends on the quality of physical and emotional nourishment provided by the environment. People, unless they are brain damaged, only get stressed, anxious, angry, depressed or psychotic when these human givens are infringed in some way. ”Primary Care does not currently have sufficient resources and training to support such an act. Too many people fall through the cracks and, with this Bill, they could be imprisoned and given drug treatments against their will. ”Furthermore, compulsion within a resource-constrained mental health service will focus attention on minimising treatment and put pressure upon clinicians to prescribe drug therapy rather than on the necessary psychological and environmental interventions that can meet human needs and which is known to be more effective.” The Human Givens Institute believe that, if society imposes an obligation on an individual to accept treatment, it must first ensure that effective treatment is everywhere available. www.hgi.org.uk |
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