Ubik commited to mental institution, tries to sue everyone

[Eddie Teach]

Indeed.

If you admit you're crazy, you're crazy.

If you say you're not, you're a crazyman in denial.

That's a... Paradox, I think 

Catch 22.

[Razgovory]

Under the doses of Carbamazepine, Olanzapin, Risperdal and Lrazepam,

Jesus.  Talk about being forced into a fog.  Or Capetan Mihali's usual late-afternoon wind-down cocktail.

Eh, I've taken two of those, and the another very similar one.  It's not so bad.

[garbon]

Lorazepam!

[Razgovory]

Lorazepam!

No he said "Lrazepam".  Damned if I know what it is though.

[Grallon]

The guy always seemed high strung in his interventions.  But to be treated like that...  If he wasn't over the edge before this sure didn't help.




G.

[derspiess]

Lorazepam!

No he said "Lrazepam".  Damned if I know what it is though.

Popular weekend destination in Poland.

[grumbler]

This must be one of the slowest news days ever.  No person ever involuntarily committed to an asylum ever admitted that they neded to be committed; if they had, it wouldn't be involuntary.  That lazy news people chose to follow the "only sane man in the nuthouse" angle isn't surprising; it makes for more clicks than "crazy man gets treated like a crazy man."

I'm glad he got treated and, at least temporarily, cured.  Better to be sane and angry than insane and unaware of it.

[The Brain]

In a world gone mad the one-eyed monster cash is king.

[Barrister]

This must be one of the slowest news days ever.  No person ever involuntarily committed to an asylum ever admitted that they neded to be committed; if they had, it wouldn't be involuntary.  That lazy news people chose to follow the "only sane man in the nuthouse" angle isn't surprising; it makes for more clicks than "crazy man gets treated like a crazy man."

I'm glad he got treated and, at least temporarily, cured.  Better to be sane and angry than insane and unaware of it.

Indeed.

I just spent two days in court with a lady with obvious mental health issues, including that she has been involuntarily hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital for periods of time.

But not according to her.  Indeed, much like Ubik here, she had long and lengthy complaints about how her family has treated her (not that it was at all relevant).  When asked about being hospitalized, all she would admit was a diagnosis for PTSD (and not the schizophrenia that was pretty obvious).

[Martinus]

This must be one of the slowest news days ever.  No person ever involuntarily committed to an asylum ever admitted that they neded to be committed; if they had, it wouldn't be involuntary.  That lazy news people chose to follow the "only sane man in the nuthouse" angle isn't surprising; it makes for more clicks than "crazy man gets treated like a crazy man."

I'm glad he got treated and, at least temporarily, cured.  Better to be sane and angry than insane and unaware of it.

Indeed.

I just spent two days in court with a lady with obvious mental health issues, including that she has been involuntarily hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital for periods of time.

But not according to her.  Indeed, much like Ubik here, she had long and lengthy complaints about how her family has treated her (not that it was at all relevant).  When asked about being hospitalized, all she would admit was a diagnosis for PTSD (and not the schizophrenia that was pretty obvious).

You make nothing of the fact that the court said he was right and his commitment was not valid? That's an odd attitude for a lawyer to take. I bet you think all people are guilty, especially those found innocent by the court.

[Razgovory]

Few people embrace their madness.

[Barrister]

This must be one of the slowest news days ever.  No person ever involuntarily committed to an asylum ever admitted that they neded to be committed; if they had, it wouldn't be involuntary.  That lazy news people chose to follow the "only sane man in the nuthouse" angle isn't surprising; it makes for more clicks than "crazy man gets treated like a crazy man."

I'm glad he got treated and, at least temporarily, cured.  Better to be sane and angry than insane and unaware of it.

Indeed.

I just spent two days in court with a lady with obvious mental health issues, including that she has been involuntarily hospitalized in a psychiatric hospital for periods of time.

But not according to her.  Indeed, much like Ubik here, she had long and lengthy complaints about how her family has treated her (not that it was at all relevant).  When asked about being hospitalized, all she would admit was a diagnosis for PTSD (and not the schizophrenia that was pretty obvious).

You make nothing of the fact that the court said he was right and his commitment was not valid? That's an odd attitude for a lawyer to take. I bet you think all people are guilty, especially those found innocent by the court.

Just because someone is found not guilty doesn't mean they were innocent.

Here, there is typically a high threshold to involuntarily commit someone to a mental hospital.  But just because that high threshold wasn't met here doesn't mean that Ubik is perfectly sane.

[MadImmortalMan]

There's a lot of area between perfectly sane and it's totally legit to strip his rights away rah rah law enforcement.

This was injustice. Pure and simple.

[grumbler]

You make nothing of the fact that the court said he was right and his commitment was not valid? That's an odd attitude for a lawyer to take. I bet you think all people are guilty, especially those found innocent by the court.

Are you sure that that is actually what the court said?  hat's an odd conclusion for a lawyer to reach, given that the only "news" we have about a court decision is that, something like a year later, a court said that he was not, at that time, commitable.  I don't see anything authoritative that claims that the court ruled his previous "commitment was not valid."  I doubt that a court could even reach such a conclusion as a matter of fact.

[grumbler]

This was injustice. Pure and simple.

This is argument by unsupported assertion.  Pure and simple.