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Can you tell me how to make my mom to get treatment for her depression and bipolar disorder?
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Depends: States have civil commitment laws that govern involuntary psychiatric treatment if specific legal criteria are meet. Absent this treatment can't be forced.
Answered 4/19/2014
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