Type 1 Anyone with experience of forced treatment (non-compliant teenager)

Our daughter (14) has been in and out of hospital over the last few months due to deliberately not looking after her diabetes. She has severe emotional problems (she is getting help with this) and is unfortunately communicating her feelings to us by refusing insulin and/or testing, sometimes not eating or drinking either. I think this is a way for her to she feel in control when her feelings are very out of control. Things are escalating and she was on an insulin drip recently, this was nearly forced on her but in the end she very reluctantly agreed. I fear she may soon start completely refusing all treatment in hospital. My question is...how easy is it to obtain permission to force treatment? Our daughter's lovely doc said he would need two doctors and CAMHS to agree, then the hospital director to sign it off. This would be for a max. of 72 hours, after which it will have to go to court. Anyone who has experience with their child of having gone through this? Is it straightforward to get this permission? Anyone had trouble with this due to their child deemed having capacity? I can imagine this will be a thing to worry about with her, especially as she gets older. She is able to understand the risks of non-treatment and chooses to do so anyway...

Thank you for the link, much appreciated. You're right of course, the problem lies very deep and is definitely not easily solved. We know how much she struggles with life, and also have a good idea of why. We are obviously working very hard to help her to feel better/less overwhelmed. Meanwhile though, I am terrified this will escalate and she will become medically very unwell.

Hi Resurgam,

Thank you for your suggestion. We are parenting therapeutically, and we are very patient and accepting of her. We never tell her off or shame her etc. She will still perceive any gentle attempts to help her to manage her diabetes as 'nagging' (hence username!). She has an excellent therapist, we are very mindful of how we communicate with her. The diabetes isn't the main issue as such in her life (not saying this flippantly, I know it definitely can't be much fun). Without going into too much detail, there are other very important reasons (severe trauma) why she is not coping. The non-compliance is how she tells us she isn't coping. With all due respect, I'm not really looking for suggestions on how to help our daughter emotionally (we already know this is where the answer ultimately lies) as we're already doing this, but am interested to hear if there are other parents who've been in our situation. We really don't want to go down the road of forced treatment, as it will make her feel even more out of control, not good for her mental health. But we obviously don't want our daughter to become very seriously ill or worse. She was heading for DKA and it could only just be avoided this time round.