A ‘psychiatric refugee:’ why one woman fled B.C.’s mental health laws

From her apartment in Ontario, a 24-year old woman waits on the outcome of a Charter challenge in her home province of British Columbia, a place where she claims she was involuntarily held for psychiatric care.Experts say the province is an outlier when it comes to patient consent rights and deemed consent is causing an outflow of so-called psychiatric refugees — people who flee the province to avoid its mental health laws. “I wanted to get well. I wanted to go in and sit down with a doctor,” she says.

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