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Speaking from personal experience, it’s often very difficult to get someone into treatment unless they’re either so far gone (unresponsive, or immediately obvious they’re not living in reality) that a doctor will sign off on it, or someone gets hurt and the justice system can act instead
As it should be.
The “immediately obvious they’re not living in reality” criteria is much dumber than you think. Someone can be delusional but because they can agree on basic facts, they’ll be released.
That's not enough.