We used to force hospitalization, and one result was the states would force hospitalize people to avoid having to pay for their benefits/etc. They would lock p

We used to force hospitalization, and one result was the states would force hospitalize people to avoid having to pay for their benefits/etc. They would lock people up and forget about them forever. There are plenty of examples of institutions that destroyed tons of people (some of whom were not even actually ill)! My older brother, who is mildly bipolar (functional but can't really hold a job long term) was sued by the state of new jersey when he was a teenager to hospitalize him, because they didn't want to pay for school/etc. The judge scolded them in the end, but that was a huge time spend, money spend, and emotional painful thing for my family that lasted years. There are of course no perfect systems, but one of the practical problems is that there is no real part of the system that actually cares about the mentally ill, and is actually incentivized to do that.