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mothballedtoday at 2:42 PM1 replyview on HN

Involuntary commitment. Happened to a good friend of mine during a nasty divorce, the husband made up a suicidal story and my friend was committed without the court appointing her a lawyer to defend herself. She's struggling to get her rights back, it is apparently possible, but they're gone forever until you spend a lot of money on lawyers so it's true it's not strictly the case you can't get them back but they default to staying gone forever.


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mx7zysuj4xewtoday at 2:49 PM

Just curious, but did this person have a history of emotional lability plus previous (voluntary) outpatient treatment?

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