Why are psych wards identical to prisons and apparently made to punish people with mental illness?

Oh just drop the attitude, you're making a fool of yourself. Here in the UK a hospital cannot force treatment on you following a suicide attempt unless you lack the mental capacity to make your own medical decisions at that time. Try googling the Mental Capacity Act 2005. I recently walked out of resus following a suicide attempt as I had the mental capacity to make that decision.

"In the United States it is not illegal to commit suicide. In England and Wales the Suicide Act of 1961 decriminalized suicide. Northern Ireland drafted the same wording in 1966. In Scotland suicide was never a crime." https://www.erictorberson.com/is-suicide-illegal/

"Historically, various states listed the act of suicide as a felony, but these policies were sparsely enforced. In the late 1960s, 18 U.S. states had no laws against suicide. By the late 1980s, 30 of the 50 states had no laws against suicide or suicide attempts, but every state had laws declaring it to be a felony to aid, advise, or encourage another person to suicide. By the early 1990s only two states still listed suicide as a crime, and these have since removed that classification." https://www.reddit.com/r/mentalhealth/comments/ywg0re/comment/iwkqni0/?context=3

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