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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honest question - could the parents have had him involuntarily committed as an adult once he was kicked out of dorm?  
He even said his family tried so many ways to help him. 
What can we, as a society, do about people like this? [/quote]

Involuntary holds are only if you're a serious threat to yourself or others. Doesn't sound like he did any of that until this week. Even then the holds are only a few weeks.[/quote]

Perhaps we need something less than that. More than a welfare check but less than an involuntary hold.[/quote]

[b]Yes exactly — something in the middle ground. [/b]

DCUM mental health policy pros, what are some mental health treatment and safety/prevention protocols y’all talk about? I’m genuinely curious. [/quote]

[b]What exactly  do you think "more than a welfare check but less than an involuntary hold" would consist of? Bottom line, is the person being checked/held at liberty to depart or not? And who decides that?[/b][/quote]

I have NO idea -- which is why I asked someone who knows a lot about mental health care policy and advocacy, knowledge of development/trends in the field, etc, to weigh in. They talk about this stuff. [/quote]

The reason no one who does know is going to jump in with a middle-ground answer is because there is no middle ground. Either the patient is free to leave or not.

What could happen, cf the above poster’s answer, is that treatment options could be made much more diverse and more attractive. That’s not about finding a middle ground between welfare checks and involuntary holds; that’s about spending money on us crazy people.[/quote]

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