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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just went through this for the first time with my mother. No history of depression or any mental illness but developed mania in the past couple of weeks. Wound up calling the police to bring her to ER and she received a psych evaluation there and the following day was sent to mental facility (not sure of the proper name) involuntarily in an ambulance. She can't receive any visitors and is being drugged involuntarily (she doesn't think anything is wrong with her so wouldn't be compliant) She didn't seem to be a threat to anyone else or herself so not her how she got admitted and why it's so hard for your cousin. Does it vary by state? [/quote]

I don’t know if this varies by state. But this was our experience in MD. There was no contact until my son was lucid and competent enough to sign the privacy waivers. We didn’t even know where he was sent until an ambulance bill arrived. What we later learned was that he became violent and uncooperative in the ER one time and another he attacked ER staff but I really don’t know how bad it got because he didn’t remember after all of the drugs he was given.

I doubt this varies much by state since privacy laws are federal. But some facilities might be looser with their enforcement. [/quote]

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