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"HeyBub" wrote:



Folks with catatonic schizophrenia, sleep or eating disorders,
obsessive-compulsive disorder, gender identity disorder, hypochondria,
agoraphobia, homosexual tendencies, or, in fact, MOST mental problems, may
fit the definition of "mental disease or defect," yet not be a threat to
anyone, including themselves.

Which is the main reason every mental health law that I am familiar
with always has a clause about dangerous to self or others included.
Usually as the first criteria. That and gravely disabled.

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