Question by : Help With Court System and Forced Psychiatric “Treatment”?
My mother and I (I’m 17 years old) have had issues for a while, these mainly stem from her inability to be a “decent” mother. She tries to prevent me from having a life, she doesn’t allow me to go anywhere without her except school. I’m not even allowed to have a driver’s permit, much less a license.

About a month ago, I had the bright idea to try to prove a point to her. I took a few of her pills that she sells (instead of takes). I researched them on three separate websites, including government websites. I was contempt in my belief that the dosage I was planning to take would only make me sick (so that I could possibly scare some sense into her), I was/and still am positive that the dosage I took would not kill me. (It was 3mg of Clonazepam).

Anyways, she took notice of the side effects and called 911. I had my stomach pumped and was forced to go with the Sheriff’s Department for an alleged “suicide attempt.” Now, a month later (and after getting a completely clean bill of health from one psychiatric hospital), the judge has ordered me to follow the recommendations of this privately-owned psychiatric hospital system in my area.

The therapist wants me to go to ANOTHER psychiatric hospital, because she (who has only seen me once) disagrees with the evaluations of four therapists and two psychiatrists at the previous hospital I was admitted to for an entire week. She wants me to go to this facility, which will require me to miss even more school than I have already missed.

I am COMPLETELY against taking psychiatric medication, it goes against my family’s religious beliefs and I believe wholeheartedly that counseling can help better than medication. However, I, nor my family, has any say-so in this. I would like to seek treatment (for me AND my mother) by ANOTHER therapist, and to continue to seek OUTPATIENT psychiatric treatment. I don’t feel, nor did the personnel at the first hospital, that I need to be hospitalized.

I feel this is an attempt at the company, that the judge ordered me to see, to milk money out of my family’s insurance and I am religiously-opposed to being medicated.

My family is too poor to afford an attorney, and the only thing the court gave me is a Guardian Ad Litem, which has NEVER met me, and is being completely lazy with this case.

Does anyone know any legal way to get out of this court order? Or maybe a way to be able to “change” to a different psychiatric service (I have no confidence in the one I am seeing now; the therapist even read me someone else’s file and swore up-and-down that it was mine until she realized it wasn’t– the same woman who said I need to be in a psychiatric hospital).

Or does anyone know any pro bono attorneys in East-Central Alabama that could help me? I have checked phone books, online, etc. No dice.

Thank you for any help/advice given!
I contacted my Guardian Ad Litem already. We talked over the phone. He said he IS NOT my attorney, and will not do what I want.

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Answer by saved_by_grace
Call your Guardian Ad Litem and tell them that you want to meet with them ASAP. Explain the situation to them. Really that is your only chance at modifying anything legally.

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