Here’s a quick hot take which popped to mind without my consent today: I believe involuntary psychiatric commitment is a totalitarian solution to the problem of serious mental health conditions. I also recognize there are cases, always retrospectively, which seem to suggest such a solution may have prevented premature death whether murder or suicide. But I firmly hold if enough public resources are provided to innovative social policy programs like Housing First and other direct action interventions on the ground across the country, meeting some worst cases where they are in the streets, then involuntary commitment becomes an unnecessary and abolishable form of so-called care. This I believe. Thanks, a voice not mine who remains unnamed inside my head.
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