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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Psychosis can also get him involuntarily committed, yes? Even in the absence of intention to harm?[/quote]

Lol, no. It's not easy to get someone involuntarily committed.[/quote]

Even if it’s causing erratic behavior when driving, etc? What about voluntary commitment? Not to derail OP’s thread…[/quote]

PP whose son has been committed both voluntarily and involuntarily more times than I can count at this point.

For voluntary, the patient has to consent, the doctor has to agree it’s necessary, there has to be a bed and the insurance has to agree to pay. Those are a lot of stars to get aligned. Usually it requires a danger to self or others, a plan and a means to carry it out. Extreme unsafe behavior while psychotic might get you an ER eval and a day or so in a bed. But discharge condition isn’t likely to be much better than at admission.

Erratic behavior while driving might get a person some jail time. But not likely hospitalization.

Also hospitalization is really short and for stabilization purposes only. It’s a few days at most unless the patient does something while hospitalized to turn the admission to involuntary.

The long and short of it is this. Mental health services are sparse and hard to access when you find them. And to access them you have to be able to pay except in the most extreme conditions. [/quote]

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