There are only a few situations in which you may be detained in a psychiatric institution without your consent (certainly for longer than a few hours).DarklordKyo said:Everyone who tried to "help" me just wanted to throw me in the loony bin.
1) You are constantly trying or threatening to seriously injure yourself or other people and this is frequent and uncontrollable enough that that there is seen to be a genuine risk that you will kill someone.
2) You commit a serious crime for which you would normally be detained in prison, but because of a successful plea of insanity you are sent to a secure psychiatric ward instead.
I'm not saying you imagined or made up these occasions where you got the sense that people wanted to put you in a psychiatric institution, although I would say that if you have a tendancy to fixate on or "replay" bad memories then you can't always trust what you remember because repeated replays can change the content of the memory. What I'm saying is that it's not actually going to happen unless you walk into an assessment with a knife held to your throat and demand to be detained (which someone I know did, and was detained for a grand total of 72 hours).
Now, considering that we're having a conversation about you wanting to permanently injure yourself over something as trivial as someone else saying you might like food too much, then I'm not saying it's beyond the realms of possibility that you will be detained at some point, but if it does happen (which won't be over something like this) it will be because there is an immanent risk of you doing something to seriously hurt yourself. At that point, if you ever reach it, you may find that detention is actually a huge relief, because it means a few hours of not having to deal with whatever thoughts resulted in you needing to be detained.