Mental Health Information

so it may be good to check before going into that with guns blazing.

There seems to be a tendency in all medicine to try raise sensitivity to correct false negatives, working against that is the problem that greater sensitivity is often correlated with more getting more false positives.

When the problem is societal fear/safety the likelihood of accepting excessive false positives increases. That's generally true because overarching fear favors errs of excess caution.

If the worst thing with committal was increased costs of in patient care, this would be no big deal. But of course, it doesn't end there. Discrimination by society against persons who acquire 'histories" is real.