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The prison-like environment of a locked ward and the power dynamics it entails reinforces a person's sense of helplessness,
increases distrust of the treatment process, reduces medication compliance, and encourages a mutually adversarial patient-doctor
relationship.
worsen the feeling of the person that is mentally ill

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Quote - “A report by the Suicide Prevention
Resource Center (2011) found that there is no evidence whatsoever that psychiatric hospitalization prevents future suicides.”
Paraphrase - The study showed that hospitalization doesn’t prevent suicides deeming it useless

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“However, every involuntary commitment is a dice roll. Maybe you get a good cop; maybe you don’t. Maybe you get a good cop who’s having a bad day and antagonizes your client. Maybe your client, once the police arrive, resists or even goes on the attack.”  In other words the client should have his own person that comes pick him up not some police officer that will ruin the patient and the patient will start to freak out and not be happy .

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Confusing Mental-Health Intervention and Violence Prevention

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Confusing Mental-Health Intervention and Violence Prevention

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“In such cases I’ve seen police restrain and gag a client, roughly dragging her from her home mewling, unable to scream through the restraints they jammed in her mouth. The effect is traumatizing, and every social worker knows that their relationship with their client is almost assuredly ruined after such an intervention.”

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The process for detains a person to comment them involuntarily is traumatizing. Not only does it severely affect the person being detained, it also ruins patient-client relationships.

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a person with a psychotic disorder might stop taking medications,develop violent delusions, and start hearing voices telling them to hurt themselves or others.A person with a mood disorder might become so hopeless
that they decide to act on a plan to
hurt themselves or others.

This explains that when a person that has a physchotic disorder they tend to not take their medications and they start imagining things and hearing things that are not true as well as them trying to hurt others.

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“Studies have found that the application of Kendra’s Law is successful in
driving down deaths, suicides, homelessness, incarceration, and repeated hospitalizations of those suffering with severe mental illness”

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“We're forcing people back into the street and quite
honestly, it's cruel. Cruel and inhuman.”
Doctors have said that sending mentally ill people back into the streets before they can be helped is cruel and inhumane. So we should make sure that they stay in the hospitals to get better so they can be saved before they do anything bad to themselves or others.(Khurshid)

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"Trained in mental-health response calls,
the officers arrived to find Rodgers not fitting the criteria they would normally use to take someone involuntarily into custody for a mental health evaluation. Officers said that they found him lucid and articulate, saying that he had no intention of hurting anyone. They said that he was shy, but shyness isn’t indicative of unstable mental health."

It is difficult to tell if someone is an immediate threat to people around them or to themselves and they may appear normal at the moment of confrontation.

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“This does not mean that people with SMI are never violent or dangerous. Sometimes, a person’s condition can deteriorate to the point that they are at risk of harming themselves or others.” 

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“This does not mean that people with SMI are never violent or dangerous. Sometimes, a person’s condition can deteriorate to the point that they are at risk of harming themselves or others.” 

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“This does not mean that people with SMI are never violent or dangerous. Sometimes, a person’s condition can deteriorate to the point that they are at risk of harming themselves or others.”“This does not mean that people with SMI are never violent or dangerous. Sometimes, a person’s condition can deteriorate to the point that they are at risk of harming themselves or others.”“This does not mean that people with SMI are never violent or dangerous. Sometimes, a person’s condition can deteriorate to the point that they are at risk of harming themselves or others.”“This does not mean that people with SMI are never violent or dangerous. Sometimes, a person’s condition can deteriorate to the point that they are at risk of harming themselves or others.”

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Involuntary Commitment is Unnecessary and Discriminatory by Thea Amidov
“One might think from the widespread use of involuntary civil commitment that we have few alternatives. On the contrary, over the past decades, there have been several successful hospital diversion programs developed which use voluntary admission, peer counseling, homelike environment, and noncoercive consultative approaches, such as Soteria and Crossing Place.”

People think that involuntary commitment is the only way to successfully help a person with mental illness but there are other options such as voluntary admissions, counseling, and therapy which all provide a more comforting and supportive environment.

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“Studies have found that the application of Kendra’s Law is successful in driving down deaths, suicides, homelessness, incarceration, and repeated hospitalizations of those suffering with severe mental illness, the most common forms of which are schizophrenia and severe bipolar disorder. AOT programs aim to ensure that patients receive the medication they require, retain access to it, and continue to take it as prescribed, among other services.” We understand peoples point of view but we will never understand a mentality I’ll person and that’s why we can’t force people for mental help.

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Quote - “According to a National Council on Disability report, people with psychiatric illnesses are routinely deprived of their civil rights in a way that no other people with disabilities are”
Paraphrase - People who get commit lose more rights than anyone else does

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Quote - “According to a National Council on Disability report, people with psychiatric illnesses are routinely deprived of their civil rights in a way that no other people with disabilities are.”

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"'People need more intensive treatment, not permanently,' she said. 'But no one's restored to sanity in 72 hours.' For instance, Savino and others have pointed to homeless people with mental illness who may be released after such an involuntary hold but are at severe risk of cycling through the system again without the necessary support they need."

Weak laws around involuntary treatment are doing more harm than good, 72 hours is not enough to help someone

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psychiatrist who wishes to remain anonymous told me that voluntary
psychiatric programs often see patients with post-traumatic stress from their stay on a locked inpatient ward. Imagine finding yourself
surviving a suicide attempt, glad to be alive, but suddenly locked up like a convicted criminal with no privacy, control over your
treatment, or freedom.

attempting to commit suicide and then surviving and having all your freedom taken away is devastating.

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Involuntary Commitment is Unnecessary and Discriminatory

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Involuntary Commitment is Unnecessary and Discriminatory

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“If you are suffering from serious mental illness, ‘freedom,’ Torrey and Jaffe say, is a meaningless term.”

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Serious mental illness takes a huge toll on a person. It leaves a person feeling hopeless. The term “freedom” can be meaningless to people with mental health especially if involuntary commitment is involved.

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Quote - “The prison-like environment of a locked ward and the power dynamics it entails reinforces a person's sense of helplessness, increases distrust of the treatment process, reduces medication compliance, and encourages a mutually adversarial patient-doctor relationship.”

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Fortunately, there is something you can do if you fear someone is at risk of hurting themselves or someone else because of a mental health condition. All fifty states and theDistrict of Columbia have laws in place that allow police, and in many cases, private citizens, to initiate a process of civil commitment

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“Psychiatrist Dr. Richard Warner writes: "... we take our most frightened, most alienated, and most confused patients and place them in environments that increase fear, alienation, and confusion." A psychiatrist who wishes to remain anonymous told me that voluntary psychiatric programs often see patients with post-traumatic stress from their stay on a locked inpatient ward. Imagine finding yourself surviving a suicide attempt, glad to be alive, but suddenly locked up like a convicted criminal with no privacy, control over your treatment, or freedom.”
Paraphrase- Patients are scared and confused as it is and committing them only makes it worse. They get locked up with no privacy, control over their treatment, or freedom

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Involuntary Commitment is Unnecessary and Discriminatory by Thea Amidov
“The prison-like environment of a locked ward and the power dynamics it entails reinforces a person's sense of helplessness, increases distrust of the treatment process, reduces medication compliance, and encourages a mutually adversarial patient-doctor relationship.”

Since involuntary commitment is where people are not participating by choice it can leave the person feeling helpless and distrustful which not only patient-doctor relationships, but also other types of relationships as well.

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1. “The commitment process temporarily suspends a person's rights and should not be taken lightly. If it's safe to talk to the person you're concerned about, take the time. You may find that they need help but not the kind you thought. If you find a person is not at immediate risk of harm, and does not have symptoms severe enough to merit inpatient treatment, consider using the search tools on OpenCounseling or BetterHelp (a sponsor) to find affordable local or online therapy and helping them set up an appointment. If you do find that they need immediate help and aren't able or willing to get it, reach out. Commitment can save lives when used wisely and well.” In other words people should not have their rights taking away just because they can’t control something of theirs that’s Wrong with them.

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individuals are required to participate in
Assisted Outpatient Treatment if they are
deemed to be unable to survive in
the community without supervision. There are
several criteria that the
patient must meet including a history of not
complying with required
treatment leading to hospitalization at least
twice in the previous 36 months.This is explaining reasons why a  patient with mental illness need to be in treatment so they won’t harm others around them.

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"Studies have found that the application of Kendra’s Law is successful in
driving down deaths, suicides, homelessness, incarceration, and repeated hospitalizations of those suffering with severe mental illness, the most common forms of which are schizophrenia and severe bipolar disorder."

Involuntary treatment reduces deaths, homelessness, incarceration and repeated hospitalizations.

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Involuntary Commitment is Unnecessary and discriminatory

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Involuntary Commitment is Unnecessary and discriminatory

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Quote:
“A report by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center (2011) found that there is no evidence whatsoever that psychiatric hospitalization prevents future suicides. In fact, it is widely recognized that the highest risk of a repeat attempt is soon after release from a hospital.”

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It was reported by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center that there is no evidence that being committed prevents suicides. If anything, the risk of an attempt was higher after someone is released from a hospital.

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Sometimes, a person's condition can deteriorate to the point that they are at risk of harming themselves or others. For example, a person with a psychotic disorder might stop taking medications, develop violent delusions, and start hearing voices telling them to hurt themselves or others.