Oh. If you are looking for an ethical line, it sounds kinda simplistic but it’s generally “are they at risk of harming themselves or others” and not “are they living in our consensual reality”.
And it does kind of suck, because that’s why our roommate got returned to us (she did later end up in the residential system, which was also a nightmare for her, but she just never regained the ability to navigate the world, and that is not uncommon with schizophrenia, it can sort of explode as people become adults) and because people who are suffering and out of touch resist treatment that could help.
When I was a teenager (1980s) parents routinely got oppositional kids hospitalized, it was a mess, there was a whole for profit industry for institutionalizing kids who weren’t really even mentally ill, Charter was the name I remember. You aren’t wrong it’s a slippery slope.
Oh. If you are looking for an ethical line, it sounds kinda simplistic but it’s generally “are they at risk of harming themselves or others” and not “are they living in our consensual reality”.
And it does kind of suck, because that’s why our roommate got returned to us (she did later end up in the residential system, which was also a nightmare for her, but she just never regained the ability to navigate the world, and that is not uncommon with schizophrenia, it can sort of explode as people become adults) and because people who are suffering and out of touch resist treatment that could help.
When I was a teenager (1980s) parents routinely got oppositional kids hospitalized, it was a mess, there was a whole for profit industry for institutionalizing kids who weren’t really even mentally ill, Charter was the name I remember. You aren’t wrong it’s a slippery slope.