Can a psychiatrist order you to do anything?!
Question: I ask because my therapist committed me to my apartment and I cannot leave. How far can a therapist go with their authority?
Answers: I ask because my therapist committed me to my apartment and I cannot leave. How far can a therapist go with their authority?
Unless the court steps in, you have free will. At the same time, it's up to you to decide if your therapist's reasons are rational and in your best interest. Then you are agree to go along because you see some value to the direction. BUT, that's different that blindly obeying an order your therapist doesn't have the authority to give. I'd guess that there either was a misunderstanding. If not, you might want to look for another therapist.
No your therapist can't do that unless there is legal intervention or a valid reason. You'd need to be under watch for that.
There must be a lot more to this question. They can't force you to do anything, only suggest. You can be forced to be in a mental hospital if you are dangerious to yourself or others. In that case, they have a spefic time as to how long they can hold you there. I have never heard of someone being commited to stay in their home, unless it was as an option to jail, as in what they did to Martha Stewart.
Your psychiatrist is not typically your 'therapist'. Your therapist is usually a psychologist, while a psychastrist is someone who uses the branch of 'psych' that works to use medicine and science in the field, and not behavioral work. Someone in the field of behavioral work does no have the legal authority to commit you to your home. You would need a judicial order to do so. Your psychologist can only feel that when you have become a threat to yourself or others that you need to be commited or authorities alerted in some states on a 40/60 or 72 hour watch or baker act or because you no longer are capable of making your own descions, and the state may strip you of your legal authority and commit you.
your psychiatrist can not commit you to your home.
If he feels that you are a danger to yourself or others he can give you some time in the psychiatric ward in the hospital but not your home .
It doesn't make a lot of sense.
As isolation in ones home can lead to other mental health conditions
This doesn't make any sense unless there's a lot more to this story than you're telling us. No medical professional has the authority to put you under house arrest. That's silly.
I suspect that you are either in a mental hospital or have been and if you are at home, you might be on a tether which was by court order. Perhaps you are in a group home. You sound very paranoid, perhaps schizophrenic. Just do what the doctors and staff tell you, they really are there to help you. My aunt was paranoid schizophrenic; once she was on the right medications and in a group home her life got a lot better. I wish you well.