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Originally Posted by precaryous
Most of you already know I was exploited by a previous PDoc. I am still working through some things.
Does anyone know if it takes more than one doctor's signature to commit someone to a State Mental Hospital?
Back then, after the exploitation but while I was still on speaking terms with PerpDoc, he was insisting that I see a particular neurologist because PDoc thought I was having seizures. He also told me that he wanted me tell the neurologist positive things about PDoc. I could help get him referrals from the neurologist that way.
By then, I had already consulted with a new group of doctors, so I turned him down. I was suspicious of his motives. It was dawning on me that he might try to have me committed so that I would not report him. I thought that might be why he was insistent that I see the neurologist. When I refused, the PerpDoc had my drivers license revoked, lying, saying I had seizures, when there was no proof of that.
I had to go through several medical tests, including an EEG, to get my drivers license back. My new doctors were one and a half hours away from where I lived, one way. My attorney in L.A. was two and a half hours away. I could not get their help if I could not drive there.
All these years I have had this fear that PDoc was scheming to get me committed. Current T said something like...he didn't need two doctors to sign off on it, that he could have committed me all by himself.
Does anyone know what is required to commit someone to a State Mental Hospital in California? This happened around 1995.
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I don't know how many mental health professionals have to be involved, but I'm certain there has to be a hearing, and at the hearing theres a judge- adminstrative law judge, I believe, anbd two other court officials whose titles I don't know.
This "review" is initiated at the 14 day hold level and is certainly required for long term commitment to a state hospital. You would need to be a really severe case (with no family to intervene on your behalf) or a dangerous criminal for this to happen.
There was a place in los angeles..I forget the name of it but it starts with an M, that a friend of mine was forced into at age 14 because she was in foster care, a problem child, and on conservatorship with no family to speak of. They locked her up in there for THREE YEARS and she only got out at age 17 and moved to a level 14 facility as an "experiment" to see if she could function at that lower level of care for 6 months before being placed in a group home.
They only do **** like this when youre alone and no one is watching, or your family is pressing for it and you are incapable of holding a coherent conversation to defend yourself.
I doubt your ex pdoc could have gotten away with doing this to you.