I want to ask a few questions to get the right knowledge. Please I am requesting all the doctors, especially the psychiatrists kindly answer my question. My question is can a mental patient visit his/her psychiatrist for his/her regular check-up without taking any family member? Another question is, can a patient openly ask her doctor to reduce the dose of medicine by describing his/her recent situation? And can he/she openly tell the doctor that he/she thinks that his/ her illness is recovering? If the patient has sense then does the patient have the right to say his/her opinion about his/her illness? Should a psychiatrist get angry about that? And can the doctor insult the patient in front of other patients and doctors by asking" are you the doctor? My responsibility is just to give advice. If you don't want to eat the medicine then don't.
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Hello lybrate-user. Will answer question one by one. When you say mental patient it does not clarify the diagnosis. As there are many conditions where a patient is not disabled and can visit the doctor on their own. While certain conditions patients are not sane enough to take decisions about their treatment. But in no case a doctor "should" insult or disapprove a patient's request without giving proper explanation. Still it completely remains in patients power to whether continue the medicine or not and whether they want to change the doctor also. But the patient is improving or not, that evaluation is done by the doctor as per their condition.
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If you are calm and can manage your self you can visit a doctor without a family member. Patient has right to ask doctor for reducing dosage of medicine, but doctor will do it after proper assessment only. Patient can openly discuss and tell about their feelings and thoughts to the doctor no issues in it. Its not adviced to get angry to the patient especially in front of other patients.
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