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If this applies to you, please read the tips in this post: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/03/22/navigating-and-or-avoiding-the-inpatient-mental-health-system/
Where I live every can do a 48 hour hold before a judge comes by and says let em go. The one time I got pulled in for suicidal ideation I just said “listen, I don’t currently have a plan and I’ve been sucidal for months. You’re not going to fix whats wrong with me or reduce my base risk by holding me in 48 hours and I will be AMA with a judge at the end of those 48 hours. Just let me go.” And so they did.
Pretty sure my therapist can’t have me hospitalised. What does this even mean?
In many jurisdictions of the United States, the police can have someone involuntarily committed to a psych ward if their mental health is at a state where they present a clear danger to themselves or others. In Florida, for example, this is called the Baker Act. Therapists in various jurisdictions may be required or strongly recommended to call the police and have someone institutionalized if they are expressing immediate desire to commit suicide or homicide. Even if there were the best of intentions it’s a goddamn farce.
Lemmy: “You’ve got nothing to worry about. They’ll only institutionalize you if you’re a danger to yourself or others.”
Also Lemmy: “If we don’t revolt we’re all gonna die.”
