(April 9, 2017 at 3:33 pm)Faith No More Wrote: I've been held against my will for nothing more than having a serious suicide attempt 8 years prior and being very upset because of grieving. It's really not hard at all. All the doctor needs is a strong suspicion that you're a danger to yourself or others. They don't have to prove anything.
I'm going to guess that the people interviewing your patients, chimp3, are either lazy or don't give a shit, which is not unusual in the mental health field.
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Not all, don't forget that they also have administrative guidelines that must be followed if the staff want to stay employed. Those guidelines do not always include compassion. Ever since the 80"s and the concept that institutional inpatient psychiatry was over utilized, the norm became to stabilize ASAP and then outpatient as many as possible (right or wrong). That concept continues to today. I'd say NE mental health inpatient facilities got cut by 1/2 to 2/3.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
