Hospitalized and Heading Toward Homelessness [madinamerica.com]

Alicia Doktor 6/27/181:30 PM

This story has a mostly happy ending. However, it did not begin that way.

It is a personal story, which begins with the police knocking on my door in Cary, North Carolina late one night in February 2017. I was sleeping and it was around 2 am, but the police forced me to go to a Crisis and Assessment Center in Raleigh, NC.

I questioned why this was happening but the police said they did not know, and that “they were just doing their job.” While I was at UNC WakeBrook, I asked to see the involuntary commitment order that allowed for me to be forced into treatment. The staff refused to show the papers to me.

[For more on this story by Martha C. Brock, go to https://www.madinamerica.com/2...toward-homelessness/]

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