Are your friends disappearing?

Have you ever heard someone complaining about have to go somewhere?

How about not being able to complain about getting involuntarily incarcerated into a mental institution? That one unreal to you? Well take in mind how easy it is for it to happen:

How easy is can it be to be committed to a psychiatric facility? It’s so easy in fact that in the United States that a person is involuntarily incarcerated every 1¼ minutes. The same situation applies broadly throughout the world.

And what of trial and proof?

“The fact that mental illness is rarely defined, even in psychiatric text books, that faith in psychiatry is not always borne out by results of treatment, and that without specific criteria and a real prospect of useful curative treatment, commitment to a hospital may be oppressive and even arbitrary.”
- Robert Hayes, Associate Professor of Law, Former Commissioner of the Australian Law Reform Commission

The fact is that rudimentary human rights are granted to murderers and terrorists. But those rights are denied many who have been accused of mental ills and subsequently committed. Similarl to this, the “burden of proof” for an alleged criminal to be convicted by law and incarcerated is “beyond reasonable doubt.” For any civil committal, however, what is required is merely “probable cause,” “reasonable grounds,” or a “reason to believe” there might be a danger to oneself or others.

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