I Believe Life Is a Life Long Lesson

To get a non voluntary "mental" hospitalization (5150), a person must be determined a threat to themselves or others. This has to be done using police assistance.

But in mental hospitals people are regularly coerced or lied to to get them there and once there they are simply locked in after information is fabricated. This is patently illegal yet this is done probably MORE than not.

What think intelligent SWeeps? Got outrage, anyone?

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Threepio

I have no personal knowledge of patients being coerced, however I have heard patients stating/arguing this exact scenario with staff when I had occasion to visit someone in the behavior health wards.

So one would assume that it does indeed occur.

Stilltryinghard

@Threepio Glad you are "one" speaking of using "quotes"
lol!