Ms Deirdre Lillis:

I want to support Ms Hough and I am very grateful for all she has said about that experience. It is not enough to have an independent advocate available to go in with somebody to an appointment with a psychiatrist because some psychiatrists do not let in independent advocates. It is not enough. Something stronger is needed. As Ms Hough said, it is challenging the entire system. The our rights and medication group is challenging the system. Everybody knows the quote from the special rapporteur that we need to move away from addressing a chemical imbalance to the power imbalances in psychiatry. I wonder what it would be like to consider legislative pieces with respect to conditions to taper. I wonder how that would happen and whether it would work.