What’s missing is the “care” part.
There is nothing caring about being abducted, locked away and subjected to abuse so violent, so dehumanizing, that some begin to see death as the only way to end the suffering.
That’s right: According to the shocking study by the nation’s Karolinska Institutet, IPCs are causing individuals to kill themselves.
The Karolinska study looked at 72,275 patients discharged after being forcibly institutionalized in 134,514 incidents of IPC from 2010 to 2020.
The study’s findings demonstrate that involuntary psychiatric treatment causes death.
To their horror, researchers found that one out of every 64 discharges ended with a patient dying by suicide.
The door to mental institutions, therefore, functions all too often like a chute leading straight to the killing floor. In fact, 38 of those deceased patients didn’t wait for their release before killing themselves—they died while still being confined in “treatment” centers.
The suicides ultimately add up to a rate that is nearly four times higher than voluntary psychiatric outpatients and a whopping 56 times higher than the general population.
“The results … show that involuntary treatment is a risk marker for suicide,” said John Wallert, associate professor at the institute and main investigator in the study. “It is important to point out that our observational study cannot be interpreted as meaning that involuntary treatment causes suicide.”
Really? Sure it can.
In fact, that is the only way to sensibly interpret the stats: The study’s findings demonstrate that involuntary psychiatric treatment causes death.
A study published in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology backs this up: “A recent longitudinal study found that patients who reported perceived coercion during hospitalization admission were at greater likelihood of making a suicide attempt in the year following discharge.”
The United Nations Human Rights Office, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) advocate for banning involuntary psychiatric treatment.
Despite that fact, every US state has laws on the books which allow people to be taken off the streets by police and driven to the nearest psychiatric hospital, where they can be held against their will and subjected to abuses ranging from restraint and forced drugging to—as depicted in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest—electroshock.
“We saw that the risk of suicide was highest during the first month after discharge, and that it remained elevated for several years,” Karolinska’s Leoni Grossmann said.
Kenneth Haas, 25, killed himself while confined in Oregon State Hospital under a civil commitment order.
From July 2024 until March 18, 2025, Haas was primarily kept in seclusion or restraints, in filthy conditions.
“Involuntary psychiatric detainment and treatment have failed as public health strategies and persist as a human rights crisis that costs lives.”
A smuggled 61-page confidential hospital report noted that while he was unobserved, he leapt from the top of the toilet in his bathroom, head first, into the solid floor. By the time hospital personnel found him, he had no pulse.
The hospital’s report states that the death “resulted in widespread sadness and soul-searching as to why a 25-year-old patient with numerous high-risk factors was not identified and systematically supported.”
Oh really? They’re “sad”?
Meanwhile, Kenneth is dead. Now that is sad.
“Involuntary psychiatric detainment and treatment have failed as public health strategies and persist as a human rights crisis that costs lives,” CCHR International President Jan Eastgate said. “Forced detainment and treatment do not protect vulnerable people—they harm them.”
The study’s findings aren’t unique to Sweden. In the US, 1.2 million people are forcibly hospitalized every year for mental treatment, and a 2017 study found that their risk of suicide during the first three months of psychiatric discharge was 100 times that of the global rate.
Given all these statistics, which expose that coercive psychiatric treatment not only doesn’t work, it actually causes death, why are citizens still being locked up for this fatal “therapy”?
Money—that’s why. There are big bucks to be had in the business of rounding up people and dragging them off into institutions.
Involuntary psychiatric hospitalization can cost more than $300,000 per person per year, according to estimates. Much of that is taxpayer funded.
Bottom line? We’re being scammed by a mental health industry conspiracy that has its corrupt fingers plunged elbow-deep into insurance payments and state and federal tax coffers.
And after victims are “released” from this evil system, they kill themselves.
But by then, the checks have already been cashed.
