Involuntary Commitment Quotes

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

I've called myself an accidental activist because I came to it not on purpose.

One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was 'gravely disabled.' To support this view, they wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School homework. I wondered what that meant about much of the rest of New Haven.

There's been another mass shooting by a crazy person, and liberals still refuse to consider institutionalizing the dangerously mentally ill.

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

If for harming himself a man forfeits his freedom, then he was never free in the first place.

Have you at any time been detained in a mental home or similar institution? If so, give particulars.' 'I was at Scone College, Oxford, for two years,' said Paul.

When I said that the mentally ill should be in institutions, public universities weren't the kind of institutions I had in mind.

Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it

When I was sectioned for six months, that was one of the worst experiences of my life, not being able to go out and have freedom. Having experienced it, it's almost inexplicably awful.

Yes, Simone, he is mentally unstable for being attracted to you. call the men in white suits.

Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.

If I lose my mind again and I tell you that I'm thinking of getting married, I want you to put me in a straight jacket and take me to the beach at high tide.

Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.