Multiplicity

There is some good news about institutionalization. For someone to put you into a hospital against your will, it needs to be proven that you are a potential threat to either yourselves or other people, or it needs to be taken to court. You can only be kept against your will for three days (if you are an adult, I am not sure on the status of things for children). Past those three days, it must be determined by law. I have been put into hospitals against my will, and gone willingly. Both times, I was determined an acute danger to myself, so I was not able to go until the doctor on call was sure that I was sound enough to go. Rather a slippery business when there are more than one of you. ;) I was never in for more than a week.

I am sorry that your fiance feels that way, and I hope you are able to work things out with your friend.

Anne