Untreated mental illness an imminent danger?

[mopinko]

1. "studying the function of the brain until something went wrong with his"

really jumped out at me.

it's just damned dickensian is what it is. or maybe barbaric is a better word. at least in dickens time there was bedlam.
i really think that involuntary detention law has gone too far to the other side. we can't throw women in a hole for being uppity or loose, but that women can't get her brother committed with a piece of video like that.
do you know if the scans they were talking about were mri's or pet's? man, an actually physical test for a mental illness would make so much difference. but they tell me that pet scans are not really that reliable. useful for research, but not for individual diagnosis.