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She couldn't. You cannot make someone go to a hospital if they aren't harming themselves or others.
You can (and people do) argue that by refusing to take prescribed meds the sick person is harming themselves. This only works if you have a diagnosis already, of course.
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The comment to which you replied was mine. Yes, I approve of it. Without the ability to compel him to receive medical attention, my friend would have died.
You value your friend more than you do the people who were killed because someone else lied to the police. But I don't.
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Many other good answers, but here's an anecdote: In Oslo, near the university, there used by a "cave dweller". A by all accounts bright student who at 25 decided to stop washing himself. He was soon thrown out of his student accommodation because of the smell. He then decided to take up residence under a tarp in a makeshift "cave" in a hillside next to the university where he stayed for the following two and half dec…
>(EDIT: This does not mean that he necessarily didn't have mental problems, but that he was coherent enough to be able to justify his decisions sufficiently that the court found he was competent to make his own decisions about whether or not he needed treatment) Where is the difference between this guy and the one who risks their lives and their childrens' lives by being a missionary in some place where their work ca…
Look up delusion in the DSM. The definition is more accurate without a special exemption. A close examination of the entire manual will reveal a careful wording to prevent religious people from being diagnosed with any sort of condition.
Simply the fact that this approach is taken says volumes. A rose by any other name...
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Many other good answers, but here's an anecdote: In Oslo, near the university, there used by a "cave dweller". A by all accounts bright student who at 25 decided to stop washing himself. He was soon thrown out of his student accommodation because of the smell. He then decided to take up residence under a tarp in a makeshift "cave" in a hillside next to the university where he stayed for the following two and half dec…
>(EDIT: This does not mean that he necessarily didn't have mental problems, but that he was coherent enough to be able to justify his decisions sufficiently that the court found he was competent to make his own decisions about whether or not he needed treatment) Where is the difference between this guy and the one who risks their lives and their childrens' lives by being a missionary in some place where their work ca…
(If missionary activities were frowned upon in their communities it wouldn't surprise me if the prevalence was close to that of not washing yourself.)
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Many other good answers, but here's an anecdote: In Oslo, near the university, there used by a "cave dweller". A by all accounts bright student who at 25 decided to stop washing himself. He was soon thrown out of his student accommodation because of the smell. He then decided to take up residence under a tarp in a makeshift "cave" in a hillside next to the university where he stayed for the following two and half dec…
I had to coerce a friend into getting mental help. He had made some self-destructive statements and a mutual friend reached out to me for help. Several of us scheduled an intervention to try to convince him to go get help and the day before the intervention, he made some more self-destructive statements so that same mutual friend called me and I went to his apartment. He looked like death warmed over. He hadn't been…