commitment papers
Psychiatric admission forms
Commitment papers are legal documents authorizing the involuntary confinement of a person to a psychiatric institution or treatment facility.
The term appears in legal and medical contexts, and in fiction where characters face institutionalization: They're coming with commitment papers.
The phrase carries ominous weight—it means someone has lost control over their own freedom.
- involuntaryNot under conscious control
- asylumShelter from persecution
- mental hospitalPsychiatric inpatient facility
- psychiatricOf mental health treatment
- psych wardInpatient mental health facility
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- asylumsinsane asylum, lunatic asylum, madhouse, mental institution, psychiatric hospital
- criminal recordscriminal records, arrest records, criminal history, criminal histories, rap sheet
- prison recordsinmate number, booking number, parole records, case files, booking form
- psych toolspsychological assessment, intake assessment, personality test, IQ test, screening tool
commitment papersoutpatient treatment
Care without overnight admission
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Documents granting official freedom
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