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It's sad what happened to the author's son, but historically laws allowing the state to 'interfere' with a person's psychiatric care choices have had some not i
by empressplay 11y ago
It's sad what happened to the author's son, but historically laws allowing the state to 'interfere' with a person's psychiatric care choices have had some not insignificant amount of abuse. The author seems to want to expand "threat to themselves or others" from the current interpretation of physical violence / suicide to simply acting against their own best-interests, and while I understand how they came to that position, it's far too nebulous a test to guarantee perfectly sane, rational people won't be medicated or locked up simply for acting counter to common expectations.
- jpatokal 11y agoObligatory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_... Particularly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluggish_schizophrenia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluggish_schizophrenia ...which allowed people who weren't crazy, but showed subtle signs (like, say, questioning Communism) that they might become crazy, to be locked up "for their own protection".