Behind the yellow door, a man?s mental illness worsens - The Washington Post

So I'm going to warn you this article is written from the perspective of family and society regarding increasing the ability of pdocs to involuntarily commit people and they are specifically targeting people with psychosis. Basically the guy paints his door yellow and locks himself inside leaving only to maintain his yard and pick up the groceries his mom brings him. He's delusional and has loose associations. It was interesting for me to read because what he's doing is incredibly benign but its freaking out his family and they are worried so to "help" him they want him in a psych hospital. He hasn't ended up there yet but to help him the ex-wife sold the house so he'll end up on the street. It's not like this is his first break----he was already committed once and rejected care. But it's interesting how people justify their actions as help even when they are unwanted and result in net harm. I haven't read all of the comments yet but there is even one there from a psych nurse saying hospitalization is in no way the answer for this. Plus there always seems to be this underlying assumption that people will just get better if they take meds when 30% of people don't even respond to APs and delusions are really the hardest to treat...

So if you were in this situation would you choose the yellow door safe in your home with some care from your family or the locked door on a ward and most of us know what that's like....