Psychiatric illness... deliberately controlling your behaviour

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If you have a psychiatric illness ... child or adult .. and it is unmedicated ,
Regardless of what illness it is.... Is it possible to control your behaviours?

For example: If you or child is normally destructive, busy, antagonistic and doing things deliberately when you are not happy for whatever reason , can you override those impulses and behave impeccably when you need to eg in front of a Doctor/ Mass etc and if so ,can you identify a psychiatric illness that has that ability to do this, thanks .

I don't understand psychiatrist illness so I am
Learning a lot here thanks

Sounds like your average manipulative narcissist. Get rid of this person. They may actually be pretty delusional but can reset around authority figures as a learned response.

Scary people when they cannot mask, and if anyone, anyone ever scares you out of your mind with a mere look than drop and run. This can save your life. Disturbed people are good at hiding it but when they don't, they can be very dangerous indeed.

If it's your child could they be behaving worse because of approach of teacher? Then teacher on best behaviour when observed?

I can to some extent.

But, when I'm very unwell then it's glaringly obvious and I can't conceal it.

I have ocd of the intrusive thoughts and compulsive actions variety.

I now know when I'm becoming very unwell as I can't sleep nor eat. Medication is the only thing that helps at this point.

In my experience (worked in mental health for 25 years), it's very variable the degree to which people can 'mask' their symptoms. They can't really do it when acutely psychotic, perhaps for the first time, but can certainly get better (even wehn psychotic) with practice. It does require the assessor to know what questions to ask e.g. 'you seem very calm talking to me - why do you think your mother has said that you get so angry at home?'. Unfortunately many assessors aren't able or aren't motivated to ask these questions due to the deficiency in available services. I've been on both sides of this, it's very hard. I think all families of people with serious mental illness should have access to advocacy.

Isn't it all so complex?
I'm a year head involved in this and am
Absolutely shocked at how the child
Essentially changed into someone completely different in the presence of the Hcps

How old is the child? Mid to late teens?

Don't underestimate how delusional people can be if they are mentally ill. They may be very good at hiding this but then act in really disordered and dangerous manner.

Child is 11.