I'm so happy (in a sick way I guess) that this is being brought up. Almost everyone thinks a person is hospitalized because they are a "danger to themselves or others" but I was hospitalized for 2 1/2 months because I was "gravely disabled"...I was totally manic/psychotic to the point to where I didn't know my own name. I also didn't think anything was wrong with me-I was walking into people's houses because I thought I lived there etc. but I was NEVER violent. But since no one's ever talked to me about what happened I was told (after she died) that my mom was afraid to go home after work because she was scared I would be there to hurt her. OUCH! Shoot, I lived 6hours away from her.
When you can't take care of yourself in the extreme...gravely disabled