I have had the experience of being taken into inpatient psychiatric care against my will. I fit the profile of someone that needed inpatient psychiatric help, but it would only be given to me if I was deemed a  threat to myself or others. The doctors spoke with my family about possible things I had done that would fit that description, but I hadn&#x27;t done anything to imply that. Finally, the doctors recommended to my family that they accuse me of danger to self or others anyway so I could get the &quot;help I needed.&quot; They did and I was admitted.<p>So there are apparently ways to work around it if you really want someone to be an inpatient. Perhaps sometimes that&#x27;s a good thing since wanting to kill people isn&#x27;t the only prereq for needing help. Unfortunately I am now labeled as someone who needed to be locked up as a danger to self or others when I wasn&#x27;t.