They say that the yellow card in psychiatry scares much less than such a symbol in football. Some even try to figure out how you can arrange it for yourself, without having any specific violations and deviations. As a rule, young people who are categorically unwilling to go to serve in the army are ready for such adventures. Can a card really be a salvation from unwanted service without much harm to future and social status? Let's try to figure it out.
From the very beginning
Before delving into the particulars of the yellow card in psychiatry, one should determine what kind of science is understood by this term. Currently, psychiatry is called such a field of medicine, whose area of ​​specialization is disorders and deviations of the human psyche. Doctors dealing with such issues identify, treat diseases, and practice preventive measures. Their area of ​​responsibility is severe and serious pathologies that are dangerous for a person and his relatives, as well as violations that are dangerous only to a small degree.
As a rule, non-hazardous deviations will not be the reason for enrolling in a psychiatric register, they will not put a patient in a hospital, this will have a weak effect on his future, and will not affect his social status. If the disease is considered dangerous, the person needs to be monitored. He cannot live normally, adequately, fully, and therefore receives a yellow card. In psychiatry, this term refers to a document certifying the fact of a serious mental disorder. The person who received such a paper is officially recognized as incapable of answering for the deed.
So, what is next?
Getting a yellow card in psychiatry imposes certain restrictions on a person’s life. The consequence of such a document will be the inability to drive vehicles officially, as well as legally own weapons. You can’t go to serve in the army. Such a card can cause a visa denial: for people with serious mental disabilities, it is quite difficult to cross the border. Often during employment, the employer requires the presentation of documents confirming mental health. If you have a yellow card, even the most promising applicant for a public position may refuse, often difficulties arise with finding a job in a private enterprise.
You need to understand: a yellow certificate in psychiatry is not a temporary piece of paper that can be illegally bought, and then also thrown carefreely. If such a card is issued in the dispensary, in the future it will be necessary to recognize this fact and notify each potential employer about it, if such information is requested. Do not hope that you can hide the data - the security service will certainly check the information about the person through access systems. At the moment, things are such that it is impossible to hide the presence of a registered card.
Prospects
Diagnoses in psychiatry are different, pathologies vary in severity, and some disorders against which a yellow card is drawn up may pass over time. If a person behaves adequately for a long time, there is no relapse, the patient has passed all the prescribed treatment programs, he can be considered completely healthy. In this case, the card is withdrawn. In practice, this is very rare due to the specifics of this medical industry. Even after the recall, a person faces some difficulties in everyday life - the presence of a document in the past seriously undermines the reputation, there is no confidence on the part of potential employers.
Why so?
If you ask different doctors what the yellow card means in psychiatry, why this color was chosen, you will probably be able to hear different versions of the choice of shade. Recently, yellow has been clearly associated in public consciousness with mental disorders. The dispensary is usually called the yellow house, from the books of Dostoevsky we remember the yellow walls and the yellow city, and the patient’s card, painted in yellow, became another factor that influenced the associative series. There is an opinion that during the period of tsarist rule in our country, every mental patient received a yellow card. This is nothing more than a delusion. If a person was unsuitable for service, he was given a document on a white background, but prostitutes received yellow identification cards.
Others say that earlier in the departments of psychiatric hospitals all certificates were issued on yellowish paper, hence the first name of the "yellow card", which then became official. Some believe that the color of the form was chosen for the classic color of the building - earlier, for many government agencies, yellow paint was used, this was the standard. However, indoors they were decorated not only with yellow flowers, but with any calm ones that positively affect a person’s mental status.
Accounting Features
PND (neuropsychiatric dispensary) - this is the same institution in which the patient can draw up a yellow card. The institution specializes in monitoring patients, monitors changes in the condition of a person undergoing outpatient treatment. As a rule, the patient is faced with a number of social restrictions. In recent years, it has become incorrect to talk about registration in the IPA; it is customary to designate the cooperation of a person and an institution as a dynamic observation or medical assistance, associated with counseling if necessary.
Anyone contacting here of their own free will can get advice and help from a doctor in a neuropsychiatric dispensary . The needy is chosen a course of treatment, the person undergoes it, the results are evaluated, determining how successful the events were. Such cooperation does not lead to restrictions on social opportunities. In the future, there will be no need to visit a doctor with enviable regularity. In recent years, in many cases anonymous treatment is allowed. Such a person will not be given a yellow card.
Cases are different
If a person is concerned about serious mental illness, they may be assigned dynamic observation. Here the attitude to the patient will be more strict. If the patient does not agree to receive help at the clinic, does not understand his pathology, if he has a chronic disease, treatment can be imposed. The needy is placed in a special department, regularly monitoring all his actions. The main idea is to protect a person from himself, and at the same time minimize risks for others. A patient who has been observed in this format will be issued on a yellow card. He is charged with duty four times a year or more often to visit a psychiatrist to assess the condition. If the patient avoids receptions, they can find him and forcefully bring him to the clinic for examination and assessment of the condition.
Everything is official
Modern clinical psychiatry involves several options for registering a patient. The needy can write a statement, contact the head doctor of the dispensary. This is usually done by those who come to treatment at will and knowingly. If a person has not reached the age of majority, the responsibility for signing the paper lies with the parents and guardians.
If a person refuses the treatment offered to him, does not consider himself in need, the clinic accepts an application from family members, neighbors, housing and communal services workers. In a word, anyone who is interested can participate in the case, especially if he is a potential victim of the patient. The document should contain a request to forcibly examine and cure a person. Already in the PNA a package of documents will be drawn up, it will be submitted to the court, and the meeting is held only with the direct participation of the applicant.
What's happening?
The court may agree with the arguments of the applicant. In this case, the person referred to in the application is forcibly sent to a hospital where a therapeutic course is examined and prescribed.
About paths and events
Sometimes a situation develops in such a way that a person is dangerous to others right here and now, at the current moment in time. For example, he may suddenly become unconscious and begin to threaten others with murder. In such a situation, a potential victim has the right to call an ambulance team, explaining by telephone what the call is due to. The patient will be hospitalized, they will offer him help in a hospital. As a rule, the clinic’s employees immediately advise the interested party to file an application for submission to the court - this helps minimize liability. The fact is that a hospitalized person, if he is healthy, can go to court, filed a lawsuit against doctors, as well as those who called doctors.
When will they be deregistered?
If a diagnosis has been made and a course of treatment has been prescribed, a person may voluntarily agree to it. In some cases, therapy is coercive. When the program is completed, the doctor again examines the patient and assesses his condition. The doctor may find the clinic client completely healthy. If the patient agrees with this and is interested in returning to normal life, he is deregistered. As a rule, this occurs only a few years after a successful therapeutic program. About a year, a person is obliged to constantly use the medications prescribed to him, to regularly visit a doctor. After a year they can be deregistered.
According to professionals, a more responsible option will be consulting and visiting the clinic for at least five years. During this period, the doctor will finally understand whether the person is cured or still needs specialized help and medical support. Many are deregistered three years after undergoing treatment, if the period is not marked by relapse, problems with the psyche of a different plan. Five years later, all information is archived, the patient is removed from the register completely. However, information is never completely deleted: at any time, law enforcement officers should have access to the full archives of institutions responsible for the mental treatment of citizens.
Case features
The duration of registration and the period after which a person is removed is largely dependent on the detected deviation, the diagnosis, the person’s behavior during treatment, and how well the chosen measures influence him. If a person is poorly adapted to independent life, dangerous for himself or others, no one will let him go either in a year or in five years.
Minors who have reached 15 years of age can apply for registration of seniors by writing a statement by which his card will be sent to the archive. True, agreement with the statement is possible only if the person is not currently registered.