Involuntary commitment

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Involuntary commitment, civil commitment, or involuntary hospitalization/hospitalisation, or informally in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth Realms sectioning, being sectioned, commitment, or being committed, is a legal process through which an individual who is deemed by a qualified person to have symptoms of severe mental disorder is detained in a psychiatric hospital (inpatient) where they can be treated involuntarily.

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