# Somebody called me from a psychiatric instutition saying she's held against her will.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somebody-called-me-from-a-psychiatric-instutition-saying-shes-held-against-her-will/668429>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 9, 2013, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somebody-called-me-from-a-psychiatric-instutition-saying-shes-held-against-her-will/668429 "2013-09-09T19:04:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somebody-called-me-from-a-psychiatric-instutition-saying-shes-held-against-her-will/668429/261 "2013-09-21T15:43:43Z")

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> [@Truman\_Burbank](#):
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> Well, **Hell,** I don’t know about you, but I went into the field because I hate people and figured it was an easy road to wealth.

🆒

I like getting yelled at and spit upon, myself. Getting the knife pulled on me WHEN I WOULDN’T HOSPITALIZE SOMEONE WHO WAS TRYING TO GET OUT OF COURT was pretty awesome. :yay party time!:

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**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somebody-called-me-from-a-psychiatric-instutition-saying-shes-held-against-her-will/668429/262 "2013-09-21T15:50:13Z")

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**AHunter** kindly refrain from using the term “shrink.” It’s about as disrespectful as calling you “fucking nuts.”

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somebody-called-me-from-a-psychiatric-instutition-saying-shes-held-against-her-will/668429/263 "2013-09-21T17:03:06Z")

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> [@living\_in\_hell](#):
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> **AHunter** kindly refrain from using the term “shrink.” It’s about as disrespectful as calling you “fucking nuts.”
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> Thanks.

Personally I prefer “fucking nuts” or “looney tunes” to “mentally ill” but many people who’ve been psychiatrically labeled would beg to differ.

In calling you folks “shrinks”, no more than a modicum of disrespect was intended.

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**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somebody-called-me-from-a-psychiatric-instutition-saying-shes-held-against-her-will/668429/264 "2013-09-21T17:27:57Z")

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> [@Truman\_Burbank](#):
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> How would you feel if one of the pts strangled himself with your G string?

LOL

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**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2013, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somebody-called-me-from-a-psychiatric-instutition-saying-shes-held-against-her-will/668429/265 "2013-09-21T18:05:17Z")

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Thank you for noticing. 🙂

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