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Quotation from Olmstead v. L. C. by Supreme Court of the United States
“It must be remembered that for the person with severe mental illness who has no treatment the most dreaded of confinements can be the imprisonment inflicted by his own mind, which shuts reality out and subjects him to the torment of voices and images beyond our own powers to describe.”
Olmstead v. L. C., Opinion of Justice Kennedy, concurring in the judgment (excerpt) (U.S. Reports text (Legal Information Institute))
Justice Kennedy warns that moving patients out of care can leave them worse off than institutional confinement.
Citation: "It must be remembered that for the person with severe mental illness who has no treatment the most dreaded of confinements can be the imprisonment inflicted by his own mind, which shuts reality out and subjects him to the torment of voices and images beyond our own powers to describe." — Supreme Court of the United States, Olmstead v. L. C., Opinion of Justice Kennedy, concurring in the judgment (excerpt) (U.S. Reports text (Legal Information Institute)). (id olmstead-v-lc-q4)
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