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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.
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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