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.
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.
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.
I think I’d rather be shot.
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.