Can Parents Refuse to Treat Their Son? | Chicago Med 

For those who are interested, the son ends up being a recurring patient in the series appearing in 2 more episodes. His next appearance sees him get forcibly admitted back to the hospital and the parents are forced to accept that Dr Charles' diagnosis is correct and the son receives the necessary treatment. His third appearance sees the son admit himself voluntarily as he's worried he's relapsing.

PARENTS ARE SUPPOSE TO CARE ABOUT THEIR KIDS NOT THE LABELS

I'm glad they chose a less stereotypical portrayal of someone in the middle of a psychotic crisis, he's not a threat to anyone he's just really scared and confused. It's heartbreaking but much more accurate to what people with paranoid or delusional disorders tend to go through imo.

During the course of my lifetime I have met two brilliant minds who were diagnosed with this terrible illness. Their lives were turned around. Many dreams were shattered. Families torn. Medication made them unwell. One is still alive with torturing demons, the other took his own life. This episode hit hard

I have schizoaffective disorder, but the most mild version of it. My parents didn't want to accept this, but then they did. And they started using that as an excuse reason for all the things I do wrong.

"We should sue you" right and get laughed out of court!!!

Denial is ALWAYS a dead end people.

I don't watch the show but I've seen some clips online and I just want to say I'm glad there's a show that actually takes a nice approach with mental illness portrayal. Not just the patient but the doctor is professional and kind.

The proper diagnosis can save lives. These labels don’t define you regardless if people try to make you feel that way.The diagnoses may be a part of you but it’s not who *you* are. Denial is more deadly than any diagnoses.

There is nothing "Wrong" with someone who has schizophrenia. They just need a little more help, like anyone who suffers from chronic conditions. Ignoring it won't make it any better, and will make it worse.

I can't stand these parents

Gawd what is it with dads who think they can yell problems away

Refusing someone treatment is a bad move. A potentially deadly move at that.

I know it's a show.. but I don't understand why parents are like that.. surely you would do whatever it takes to make your child better? And sure they suspected something wasn't right by the way he is talking to himself? Really?

These disorders are extremely serious and need to be treated as soon as they show. My cousin started exhibiting signs of schizophrenia at around age 17-20; I had seen it in others before and our family had a history of serious mental illness so I had serious concerns, which I brought to my family; they ignored it, which was a repeated pattern for them. I was ironically ostracized for being a "black sheep", and seeking help for my own mental health; several years later, my cousin had a violent episode on a metro train and almost killed someone, leaving them with life altering injuries. It was only then that they were forced to get him help, through the justice system and an institution; but he was released to my family within a few years and I still have serious concerns about their ability to supervise his behaviour.

Annnnnnnd in 5 years when he gets really bad and they "dont understand why their baby is acting this way!" and they throw him out in desperation or he wanders off missing for 3 days his blood and any he spills is on their fucking hands.

Ugh why are parents in such denial………

at the very end of every chicago med vid that I see there's this howl, or maybe a scream or something? cut off right at the end. it gets me every time lol

Kids rely on their parents to get them mental and physical help. So many times the kid is too far gone when they're older to understand they need help and can't get themselves that help their parents failed to get for them.

Reminds me of my father, except his made him very violent till the point people almost died. It's a horrible illness. It's heartbreaking.

The very sad thing is that some people can be predisposed to have schizophrenia genetically and never experience any symptoms but THC has been shown to jump start this so people have been known to be perfelty fine and smoke a little bit of the herb and then develop schizophrenia. Now this is uncommon but there is no way to know if your redisposed and that herb will kick it off. And I'm not slamming pot users just saying it's a thing that can happen just like smoking tobacco can cause lung cancer and vape can cause popcorn lung and alcohol serosis of the liver it doesn't happen to everyone but happens to some.

I guess it’s a very big thing to take on but leaving it will only make it worse

People like the parents give me a confidence boost because I feel way more intelligent when I hear their insufferable nonsense.

When You Know Better You Do Better How could anyone let their child suffer like that?

Ah yes, if anything happens to your child and others the blood will stain your hands till you greet death as an old friend

You always save peoples lives ❤❤

When people get late diagnosed, their parents can be in denial for a *while*, whether entirely or just about the "inconvenient" side of things. I feel so sorry for the kids who go through that - I'm nearly 30 and still struggling to get my parents to accept all sides of me (yay spectrum diagnoses), but at least I'm an adult and I don't have to spend all of my time with people who don't understand/accept me....

why take your kid to the hospital if your not gonna accept the diagnosis the doctor gives

I understand that it is possible for a doctor to be judgemental (I have encountered a few), but why do people on these shows always react like they/their loved ones are being judged when they are asked diagnostic questions by doctors who arent being confrontational or judgemental?

6:07 - So far, no signs of disorganized speech, but the paranoia, delusions, and auditory hallucinations are all there… given the kid’s age, this is looking like a textbook case of a schizophrenia-like condition.

“ he’s not some pothead” My grandmother is prescribed marijuana for her severe arthritis from two previous car accidents, honestly the last person I would expect to smoke marijuana but she’s taught me anything it’s that it’s not always a bad thing and honestly think about it there have been no reported deaths from just marijuana from laced marijuana. Yes, but not from strictly marijuana. There been no overdoses compared to every other drug in the world doesn’t that technically make it better the fact that there are no overdoses from it. I kind of agree with what my dad says when he smokes it occasionally he says it’s not a drug that’s an herb. I agree with my dad it is literally dried leaves that’s besides the point compared to every single other drug in the world that has killed people or cause severe overdoses. Which was one of the reasons I was OK with it when they prescribed it for my anxiety. But the way the Dad is freaking out the way he mentions Stanford lake now that the kid has smoked pot. He’s not gonna be smart anymore that’s not true yes using it at a young age can damage growth of your brain and stuff like that but the kids old enough that if he’s not doing it all the time it’s not really a big deal again I understand where the parents are coming from but at the same time Dad does not need to be so harsh about It. There’s never been a severe overdose with marijuana that caused death so I really don’t understand why some people literally give it to the bad term. Yes, I understand. This father necessarily might not want his son to be doing it, but he should look at it as there were other watch more horrible things my son could’ve been doing. (i’m very sorry if there are some mistakes in that paragraph I use the voice to text feature on my phone most of the time because I’m dyslexic and I have a very hard time writing long paragraphs myself but I’ll be the first to admit technology isn’t always perfect and it sometimes messes up my paragraphs)

Parents are ignorant. really sad for their son.

I have Autism and anxiety and my father took a long time to accept that his girls where Autism because of the way he was brought up by his family of achieving higher ad he felt embarrassed by this but (My parents are very loving family and care about us.) But in a cruel way after his mother had died (my Pop died in 2010) about a couple of months later all of us including my mother noticed that there was a weight off his Shoulders and he started to accept that in 2017 and now I am in medical science student university and my parents are very proud of me going to do one of the hardest courses out there. Yes it is hard, but the I love looking at the anatomy of the human body. Another story is that in 2019 I was getting ready to watch The Joker movie when I saw a mother with her son looking a bit restless and we got talking and she told me that her son was Autistic. So I told her that I was Autistic and that I was about to start university. The woman cried because I had given her hope that despite the diagnose there is hope that her son can achieve and even go to university with support.

17 years old can make his own decisions

I have heard of people lacing weed with fent but I can't for the life of me understand the profit of it.

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That pediatrician seems to get a kick out of ripping families apart. She gives me the vibe of being paid by CPS to get them children for their trafficking ring.

How does the episode end? They give consent to treatment or not?

I don't think so

It’s a unclean spirit 🙌

I swear Dave Sullivan was the rookie in Chicago pd that got shot

They have the legal right to. Doesn't mean they should..... their religious beliefs could also prevent specific treatments

First.

weed with fentanyl? wtf? who the hells puts fentanyl in weed? is that the show’s fucked up sense of the drug world?

This acting is terrible

Typical Democrats sadly

uh oh karen alert , the mom is acting like a karen ,