Question by Sly Elph: How can I have someone involuntarily committed to a Mental Health facility for observation?
I manage a mid-sized freight forwarding company. A secretary in our office has been distributing xerox copies of websites, White Papers, Working Group Final Reports and other material she’s gleaned from internet sources.
I’ve talked with her, trying my best to convince her that most things found on the Internet are unreliable.
She claims these articles and memos are legitimately found by her son, who surfs the net as a hacker.
She’s convinced completely that a large group of well known International corporations have merged with scientific groups, and also governmental entities to create a SYSTEM of Management, automated, that will enable a perpetual extraction of “service” without resistance, using technology, robust facilities and hardened digital networks.
The woman needs to be diagnosed and treated.
She’s an excellent worker, clean, friendly and very sharp, otherwise. In fact, her husband is a well-known singer in our city, and both appear to have a stable life.
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Answer by Tinker
To get someone committed they need to be assessed by a psychiatrist. I think in this instance you need to speak to her husband.
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Speak to her husband/family member if there is a problem chances are they will have noticed it and be worried to. You probably have no power to get her admitted as her coworker but her family will have the information and responsibility to do this. Pass on your concerns it is all you can do. I dont think anyone would take action on what you have said unless it is reported by family. Only serious harm to self or others would enable her to be admitted involuntarily.
dellusional info available on wiki is helpful
if she continues to disobey you then fire her crazy @$ $ .
There are crazies all over.
Here, they’d get released from the ward on a day-pass, or walk away from the group home, and find there way out to the airport, of all places. Once there, they would ride around on the parking lot buses. Sometimes, they would defecate on the bus before returning back to the city.
I got ‘em on this job too. You can always tell when they go off their meds.
I’ve concluded that a nut-case is not really a problem UNLESS they start to beleive that a specific individual (e.g., a coworker) is part of the Vast Conspiracy. THEN you’ve got a problem.
You wont commit her unless she is a danger to herself or society. Contact the county court clerk for guidlines on involuntary commitments.
There is nothing that can be done. She would have to be threatening harm to herself or someone else before they’d put her away. Additionally, the place they would put her is not about rehabilitation; it would not help her in any way, only prevent her from harming others.
If she’s living a stable life, it sounds like you simply disagree with her point of view. There’s a big difference between eccentric and insane.
Unless you live in some kind of totalitarian government, you do not have that kind of authority.
There would have to be reason to believe she is in danger or harming herself or others. As far as I can tell, it sounds like she has some unusual ideas that you don’t agree with.
All you can do is order her to stop doing it or fire her. Or if she is doing something illegal, you can call the police.
In order to meet criteria for a involuntary commitment she needs to be evaluated by a psychiatrist and found to be a danger to herself or others. It does not sound like this is the case. If she presents as dangerous call the police, they will medically clear her at the ER, she will have a psych consult and then committed. I would speak to her husband about her strange thoughts (possibly delusions). Usually when someone loses touch with reality their delusions are bizarre, like aliens living inside them ect.
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