She started the article pointing out that she herself was misdiagnosed with a mental illness. Right there, she’s admitting the system is flawed.
But, let’s agree that people who pose a danger to themselves or others should be committed. What behavior should we consider dangerous? If someone makes an empty threat during an argument, should that person be committed? Suppose “depression” is listed in the record.
There was a mental hospital in my hometown, and a few students in our high school were sent there over drug use or something. Probably their parents sent them there. It was not a nice place. Each time, the teen was released very quickly. But, while there, one was assaulted by another patient.
Another question is, who wants the hospital in their town? The hospital would place patients in our town to be treated as outpatients. Most were nice people struggling with an illness. But some of those patients weren’t mentally ill; they were just violent psychopaths.
Psychopathy can be reliably and objectively diagnosed by fMRI.
Then what should we do with them, hmmm?