Speaking of deformed cumquats, I missed you busting my balls while you were locked out of cbid by your boss. LOL!

bloody spaniard wrote:

I've heard ol' Mrs.TW is a real tyrant!

DrMaddVibe wrote:

Your wife's a saint to put up with you.
I don't care if you turned her against me. She's still a saint.

bloody spaniard wrote:

:-k
Do they still call them nuts..?? what is the politically correct name for them..?? 😕

DrafterX wrote:

Dunno. Stability challenged?

Regarding why it is so difficult to get anyone committed nowadays...supposedly it is an overreaction to past abuses of the system, when it was fairly easy to get someone committed to a mental institution. So instead of signing a few papers and securing care and supervision for someone, now it has to be legally proven beyond any doubt that the person is in imminent danger of harming themselves or someone else. Unfortunately, this is pretty hard to prove proactively.

So when the numbers of people being committed for various reasons dropped, the funding for various institutions dropped correspondingly and a number of them closed down.

In short, being crazy is within your rights as an individual and not against the law, right up to the moment when you get hold of a weapon and kill a bunch of people. Then the media and political feeding frenzy starts...about the weapon, not the crazy person.

DadZilla3 wrote:

It can't be that hard to be proven crazy and be locked away.

Brewha wrote:

It is much more difficult than it used to be, unfortunately. And by unfortunately, I mean that a lot of people who genuinely need help are not admissible into the mental health care system. Or whatever is left of it.

DadZilla3 wrote:

:-k
tough call really.... what would the world be without Dennis Hopper..?? 🤔

DrafterX wrote:

Or Pat Robertson . . . .

Brewha wrote: