All of the voluntary people in these psych units I've been too. Most of them were the most irate and likely to throw a chair at the window, because they all came in used to civil rights and thinking that they could leave at any time. Many of them also held unrealistic beliefs about psychiatry and expected psychotherapy and to vent their problems and be talked to, only to find out that all psychiatry has are drugs, drugs and more drugs. Drugs that they could had just gotten from their family doctor. The only other thing they have is incarceration at a expense of over $1,000 a day per patient to tax payers and insurance companies.
When a voluntary patient would decide to leave, if they were the slightest bit irate it was rare that a psychiatrist would discharge them (and they would almost always be irate at the point of demanding to leave) so then they would have to fill out a intent to leave form and it would have to go before the mental health court and become a legal battle. Where, by the way, only 9% of such cases are won by the "defendants", or that is, "patients".
Despite some spelling problems, I love this article and look forward (or am at least hopeful) to reading his book.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article6538213.ece - It appears they have problems with psychiatry in the U.K., too.
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