[kjkjadksj]

I saw the police cuff someone who was walking on the shoulder of the highway. They probably went to jail for the night and were released before long to continue walking out of their mind into roadways until something tragic puts a stop to that. The cruelty of the process comes from how procedural it is. No one kicked this person back into certain harm directly, but thats basically what the procedural implementation we have amounted to, and sadly there is no mechanism built in that would have lead to this person getting the help they need instead of being put right back into the same harm they were in previously.

[vondur]

It's very difficult in the US to have someone declared unable to care for themselves. The may get held on a temporary psychiatric detention in a hospital, but most likely we be released afterwards.