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Women with mental illness: the right to marry versus the right to treatment

WOMEN WITH MENTAL ILLNESS: RIGHT TO MARRIAGE VERSUS RIGHT TO TREATMENT

In the Asian cultural context, the right to marry and the right to treatment conflict for women with mental illness, and families attempt to uphold both rights by concealing the history of mental illness and secretly supplying medication.

The aim of the study is to illustrate, through case presentations, the difficulties that arise in simultaneously exercising the right to marry and the right to treatment among women with mental illness in Asian culture. The method consists of case presentations of six married women with mental illness. The cases describe the following patterns: a mother discontinuing treatment after her daughter improves in order to facilitate marriage, followed by the daughter experiencing a relapse after marriage and being sent back to her parental home; a woman being given medication to take secretly in her husband's home; a woman being sent back to her parental home after being caught taking medication secretly; a woman who was secretly supplied with medication and continued treatment for seven years; a woman who experienced a relapse after marriage and received treatment in her parental home but was not allowed to return to her husband's home because she was taking medication; and a woman whose husband confiscated her medication and refused to let her take it because he wanted her to be well without medication. The discussion notes that Article 16 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights grants every individual the right to marry, and that classical Hindu religious texts and social expectations also regard marriage as necessary for everyone; meanwhile, Section 18(1) of India's Mental Healthcare Act 2017 and Article 21 of the Constitution of India guarantee the right to treatment. The author emphasizes that modern psychiatric treatment enables many people with mental illness to marry and adjust to married life, but that this requires treatment to continue after marriage. However, most men are unwilling to marry a woman with mental illness and react negatively and abandon their wives when they observe symptoms or discover that their wives are taking medication. In conclusion, exercising the right to treatment is often difficult for married women, and families' practice of concealing the history of illness and secretly supplying medication is described as a coping strategy used to uphold both rights simultaneously.

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