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Re:As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Healt... by kosys on Friday May 17, 2019 @12:32PM (#19941144)
This isn't the case in all states. I knew a friend who was LGBT and bullied severely where she was falsely arrested by hearsay of the persons bullying her. She ended up being brought to a hospital because of lies and was forcibly committed because of the police report that was written from testimony of the people who bullied her. She ended up committing suicide later in life because of the hospital experience and where none of the doctors listened to her with labeling her delusional. I don't know if they drugged her because she never went into detail about it.
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Re:As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Healt... by jhauris on Friday May 17, 2019 @12:54PM (#19941378)
This is the kind of thing that worries me. I'd rather err on the side of not involuntarily removing people's freedom.
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Re:As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Healt... by arcticbull on Friday May 17, 2019 @12:59PM (#19941428)
There's a big difference between offering socialized mental health care to anyone who needs it and forcing people to take it. It's like saying we shouldn't offer socialized medical care because the government may drag me in to the doctors office and force me to wear a cast. I do understand the negative connotations and our checkered past with mental healthcare in general though I'd like to think we've come a long way and we should address failures on a case-by-case basis.
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Re:As Suicides Rise, Insurers Find Ways to Deny Mental Healt... by fjsolwmv on Saturday May 18, 2019 @09:13AM (#19947218)
The slippery slope is real though. In the UK relatively minor infractions have gotten babies seized from their mothers, not for criminal justification but for health department reasons.
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