• ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    4·
    10 hours ago

    If it’s not an emergency (as in not actively attempting, and I assume this is the case by the language used in panel 1), your best bet to get someone involuntarily committed is by visiting the courthouse, filing a petition, and demonstrating with evidence they are a danger.

    If it is an emergency, the yeah you have to call, and yeah they’ll probably send cops with the ambulance, and yeah the cops like doing that sometimes. But maybe you’ll get lucky, most of the time nothing bad happens and so it doesn’t become a national story and a point in your confirmation bias folder, so it’ll probably still be fine. Probably still better to seek option one though…

  • unfreeradical@slrpnk.net
    8·
    11 hours ago

    Additionally, mental hospitals are overused.

    When someone has a crisis, instead of receiving a meaningful intervention at the source of the crisis, the intervention will consist of locking them in a hospital and forcing them to take drugs, offering no other support. They may stay confined as long as an unaccountable judgment is maintained that they are not adequately stable, and they have essentially no rights in the interim. The whole system is farcical.

      • unfreeradical@slrpnk.net
        1·
        10 hours ago

        It’s one more reason to find alternatives to calling the cops.

        Taking someone to a mental hospital may feel like the only option in some cases, but only because society has not developed the capacities to help people, in a natural setting, to solve actual problems at the root.

  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
    14·
    17 hours ago

    Back in my day, if you got sick of your wife you could just drop her off at the asylum and tell them she is “hysterical” and they’d take it from there.

    • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip
      4·
      15 hours ago

      i imagine doing that would bring her to the phase where you didn’t really need to lie, kind of self-fulfilling lie :D

      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
        4·
        13 hours ago

        Yes…she can yell and scream at them and tell the doctors that she’s sane and you’re lying to control her, that you’re abusive, that you time-traveled back from a post-apocolyptic future to prevent the machines from starting a nuclear war, etc.

        But that just proves that she’s clearly unhinged and in need of serious therapy like a lobotomy or heavy medication.

        This is part of what made America “great”, in the conservative viewpoint. Dissenters could be easily managed.

        And it’s starting to seem that we are headed back into that direction. Women get autonomy over reproductive health taken back. For the people of color, we’ll bring back Jim Crow. LGBTQ rights are fairly new, those should be able to get clawed back easily.

        The rest are all brainwashed into agreement, imprisoned over weed possession or debt, or trapped in a metaphorical prison where they are the only sane people surrounded by idiots.

        Then just throw what’s left of the voting rights act into the bin and redistrict to ensure perpetual conservative victory. We’ll get back there eventually, at this rate.

      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
        31·
        13 hours ago

        That’s where the word “Hysterectomy” came from.

        Even though the word comes from the old Greek root “hyster” for womb, we don’t call the organ itself by that name, we use “uterus” (from Latin). The name origins from being the primary treatment for hysteria.

        Hysteria, itself, was an official diagnosis until 1980, and while there are medically valid reasons for a hysterectomy, the term itself is rooted in misogyny, and some people want to rename the procedure as a result.