Not that this has anything to do with the topic at hand, but the documentary short has not been posted on the current tv website for all to see.

The link is: http://www.current.tv/watch/14703095

Enjoy!!!

I find this deplorable.I have been in the painful position to have to give a sworn statement to ITA (involuntarily commit)my daughter. The emotions that come with that, are horrible, undefinable, in the category of guilt forever, pain inducing, agony making decision.
I cannot imagine ANYONE ever giving a false statement to gain help whether it was needed or not...this nurse, her reasons, maybe she is a crimimal is what it makes me think.
I can tell every reader here, to walk through the process of involuntarily committing a loved one is serious stuff, and therapy inducing at that. Though my daughter was obviously very sick, and I was not the final say on whether or not she "got a bed", it is the Mental Health Professional along with a trio of team members, and it takes about 12 hours to complete.
Then live with yourself the next day, and the days and years after that.
For anyone to have an unjustified committment, is an unspeakable removal of self, dignity, and then freedom and rights.
As a result of having to go through this process with someone who really, really needed it, and living my pain and hers all at once, well it makes me sick to think anyone attempted or attempts to lock someone away wrongly.
This nurse just sounds like a psychopath herself.
Real people, like me, are faced with this decision every day.
The Mental Health Professionals (MHP's) I worked with, actually had to remind me they were the ones making the decision, not me.
Doesn't matter, when you watch that ambulance drive away with a strapped down loved one, like my innocent daughter...well, it crushed my soul.
So there, that nurse, that woman, had no soul.

As much as you enjoy deriding Dr. Torrey, I know that you are also willing to give credit where credit is due. Dr. Torrey has been one of the loudest voices questioning the costs of mental health medications. In fact, Dr. Torrey coauthored a report with Public Citizen in 1998! that detailed price gouging:

http://www.commondreams.org/pressreleases/July98/071598b.htm

He’s also been leading calls to ensure that NIMH focuses its research on serious mental illnesses, with the hope of finding a cure or at least better medications for those suffering. It’s a message that you don’t hear coming from a lot of other mental health advocates.

http://www.citizen.org/hrg/healthcare/articles.cfm?ID=10720

Finally, in his book Surviving Schizophrenia, he has an entire section dedicated to the entire picture of medication, including side effects, costs and the options that first-generation and generic medications offer.