That’s the point of involuntary commitment. You cannot expect a person who has lost the capacity for rational judgment to seek help.
We have to help them for their own good whether they like it or not.
Better for them and better for society.
On one hand I can see that and on the other it worries me.
Involuntary commitment has been abused in the past and the way the political debate is going, where you are called crazy because you don't the average planet temperature is going to rise by 30 degrees in 50 years.
“We have to help them for their own good whether they like it or not.”
Ah, that sounds eerily familiar, and NOT in a good way!
Be very careful what you wish for, and remember the law of unintended consequuences.