leaving the state to avoid involuntary commitment

Copy_Cat wrote:
I am trying not to be disruptive and to stay on topic here but the way I was violated and abused in that "hospital" ... Strip search, squat and cough then threats of painful forced injections with scary brain disabling and body damaging drugs for refusing to take a handful of pills I knew was too much and would harm me all wile behind a locked door with no place to run.

Then my reaction to this abuse is charted as "rapid speech" and "agitation" and used as proof I was "ill" and needed even more of this abuse.

Maybe if psychiatry learned how to treat people like human beings instead of acting like soulless psycho barbarians they wouldn't need court orders for people to accept their "help" or "treatments".

I pray for the day they are held accountable for their crimes against humanity.

I'm sorry that happened to you, I really am, but they're not all like that. The one I went to, I was welcomed with open arms from the very first second. I too was involuntarily put into a hospital by my psychiatrist and I was scared. It turned out to be the best eight days of my life. I got me away from the stressful environment of my workplace, it got me to meet new people, I got to see Star Wars (my favorite three movies) for the first time in HD on a 70 inch flat screen television with surround sound, I got to do arts and crafts, I had a professional chef make me delicious food, I got a room of my own and was allowed to freely walk around the hospital, I got to drink soda, and coffee, and had a large selection of books to choose from, music ranging anywhere from Mozart to Garth Brooks, books ranging from Pride and Prejudice to Jurassic Park, movie ranging anywhere from The Notebook to, again, Star Wars, and over five hundred channels of television. I got to play board games and do yoga and talk about my problems and solve problems in a problem solving activity period, and we even had a piano to play (but sadly, the girl who was taught to play the piano from age 5 and all the way up until that day when she was in her 30's left after the first day I was there), and we got to play Nintendo Wii a couple times too.

While your experience with a psych hospital sounds awful, they're not all like that, just like not all are like the one I went to.

Gilded cage definition,

To be like “a bird in a gilded cage” is to live in luxury but without freedom.

Doesn't matter if it's "nice" a cage is still a cage. A locked psych door is a locked psych door.

Im sorry to say but psychiatry is total fraud period. The drugs are neurotoxic brain damaging soul destroying poisons. Psych hospitals are prisons/jails. I am sure there are upscale nice hospitals but most are nothing more than locked wards with terrible treatment. I just am trying to get away from this system and wish to do my best to never be involved with it again. I am not saying that they dont help some people or that they aren't necessary. Massive change needs to occur and there should never be force or coercion involved.

I never would have gotten better if I listened to them, it took me forever just to figure out that since they never did anything but make me sick and dependent on drugs they were never going to help me with being sick and dependent on drugs ! Thankfully I was told about 'anti psychiatry' and read a few books that explained how psychiatry really works and took my life back.

Copy_Cat wrote:I never would have gotten better if I listened to them, it took me forever just to figure out that since they never did anything but make me sick and dependent on drugs they were never going to help me with being sick and dependent on drugs ! Thankfully I was told about 'anti psychiatry' and read a few books that explained how psychiatry really works and took my life back.

This is such a great and admirable post. I completely agree. In Germany, about 60% of psychiatrists are not fit to practice because they have more issues than their own patients. Why don't other countries come up with the statistics? Every day, psychiatrists do sexual abuse and rapes [often after drugging], they deceive patients and write bogus data into their records, they charge insurance companies for harmful treatments that the patient did not need, they prescribe drugs based on kickbacks from the big pharma, they falsify reports about great successes of drug treatment, they falsify that the patient is much sicker than he really is, they experiment on people with drugs without knowing what these drugs will do to them, they lie about the electroshocks and lobotomies, and they lie also about all drugs. They even lie about the involuntary commitment, saying that it is for people's health when it destroys everybody's health, and most of all they scam that they are mental health professionals when first thing they do to most patients is they block the feel-good neurotransmitter dopamine, so they make sure no matter what you do you do not feel good.

IMO leaving the State (or the country) is a good idea, and it can save your life. More often than not the drugs make you unable to work, and dependent on benefits.

According to what I know, either a psychiatrist or a family member issues the civil commitment and the chancery court contacts law enforcement to locate you. I do not believe that there is any warrant issued i.e. if you are pulled over in the county and the enforcement agent does not have awareness from somebody talking to him that said individual is to be commited, then he does not know you have a civil commitment: I don't believe that there is any warrant issued through the computers labelling you to be picked up, unless it is a criminal commitment, which usually only happens when you commit a serious crime and the doctor at the jail determines you are insane and not suited to being in jail, so they commit you permanently to a mental institution (usually only happens in murder cases). Long story short, the chancery court speaks to the family member as to the places you usually are, and issues those instructions to a random police officer, who then works to find you, but all other agents in the county, especially if a big county, have no awareness of your existence, nor do they have any probable cause to pick you up. They all know that most civil commitments are due to punishments and abuse from the family or the family is so nosy if you are completely gibberish schizophrenic insane, in which case those people just take a bus out of the area. I myself detest mental hospitals, and personally, I would leave the state, for a time at least. There are people on criminal warrants that due to their low level (alcohol intoxication) who skipped court and are never brought in even when stopped for a traffic violation.