True, but even they can't force a person to accept treatment for anything but a very short period of time. That is the law that the libs forced on this country about thirty years ago.
True. Sad. True.
I know you didn't reply to me regarding this, but EXACTLY....that is what I was talking about in my first post to you.
The police were called because my relative became very violent towards another family member. The police took one look and knew she was in a completely different reality, and gladly (and gently) took her into custody directly to the hospital.
Whereupon, the looney-tune psychiatrist interviewed her for 30 minutes, and believed her completely fabricated story that the family was only attempting to steal her money and control her life. He even berated the victim family member for attempting to control the independent life of an adult child.
I will not tell you what line of the work the ill person was in; however, the psychiatrist even OK'd the person to go back to this job...which could have been an unmitigated disaster.
Fortunately, with years of persistence and incredible frustration, the situation has been handled (and you know how it goes) for now.
In California, it was more than forty years ago that involuntary commitments were eliminated by the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, an act which was essentially copied by many other states.
But, it wasn't forced on us just by libs. It received bi-partisan support in the legislature.
And, it was signed into law by our then governor, Ronald Reagan. (I've been told that he later felt that it was a major mistake.)