The Hospitalization/Prison Checkup Rationale: Out of Control and Under Control...

They say mental health checkup hospitalizations are mostly imprisonments (detentions in Ministry of Love) that serve to warn the patient of what they can do to you in the hospital. I can think of other reasons for checkups, too:

• They take you away from your home, property, financial instruments/papers, family/community, and job (can get you outed and fired). Your social worker and family get control of everything outside of the hospital and can inspect and investigate everything.
• You are warned with temporary homelessness.
• You cannot easily get at most public media (like TV) or vote, while locked up.
• They try you on various drugs and regimens (especially torture) to see what they do to you, or even change your diagnosis or illness.
• They make sure you were really taking your meds or were not doing so.
• They use you for various experiments and trials (guinea pig).
• They examine your body and health.
• They can force you onto a diet, off drugs or cigarettes, or to exercise (or not to).
• They can give you psychological talk therapy, and make recordings and take notes (all while you are drugged up and suitably ductile).
• They break you away from enablers or support systems.
• They see what can make you violent or suicidal—drugs or stressors.
• They can force you into OT or education or rehab or on or off of welfare.
• They "churchitize" you with public shame or ecstasy.
• They make you humble before the state and community.
• They can get babies in or out of you or force you to participate in public sex and even into marriages.
• They force you into or out off the workforce.
• They give you shocks that drop kick (indoctrinate) you into new social roles: like being a senior, a returning soldier, a widow or widower, a newly minted mental patient, or a new adult. In someways, it is like summer camp or a school (a clinic or continuing education).
• They can conduct forensic investigations for crime, divorce, or probate.
• They can hold you until new caseworker arrangements are made, like finding housing or welfare for the "homeless" or legal solutions for the bankrupt, accused, or convicted.
• They strip you and challenge you, like in boot camp, make you a naked individual citizen before the glory of the state.

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--- JASON LINDSAY CROCKETT ---