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> While most countries have deinstitutionalized, they still make it much easier to force treatment on an out-patient basis.

Where are you getting that? Which countries? Certainly in Ireland and the UK, I'm pretty certain that it is all but impossible to force outpatient treatment, and I think this is generally more or less the case in Western Europe as a whole. Involuntary admission to psychiatric hospitals is still, marginally, a thing, but very rare.



UK: Mental Health Act 1983, so yes forcing outpatient treatment (under the threat of getting locked up) is possible

https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/social-care-and-your-rights...

Easy to find stories people being threatened with these laws into accepting treatment:

https://www.mentalhealthforum.net/forum/threads/threatened-w...

If you're wondering why human rights treaty organizations are so involved with these laws, and with the similar laws concerning children, look up how the holocaust started. But ... you don't really want to know the connection there.




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