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Friends and Families of Psychiatric Survivors of Wisconsin
Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law

"Outpatient commitment is a simplistic response that cannot compensate for a lack of appropriate and effective services ."

Click here to go to Bazelon's page regarding involuntary commitment, whether in- or outpatient.

 Please note that FFPS does not use the term "mental illness".


We feel that Bazelon does good work, even though they use the term "mental illness." We hope, though, to persuade them to adopt a new, more accurate, less demeaning term.
 
"Mental illness" and "brain disorder" imply there can be no hope of improvement. This is good marketing for pharmaceutical companies.
 
That's what NAMI has always been about.