If you look at his other comment you start to see why people don’t reach out. I’ve never been in custody, I’ve always known that no matter how bad it is, inpatient care rarely helps. I’m rare in that I know someone who has been helped by it, but I know multiple people who were hurt by it.

Forcing people into inpatient care is dangerous for the sane and insane alike. There’s a long history of pathologizing dissenters and locking them up for it. But also locking people up against their will, in a system that those who volunteered for it often regret doing so, is not conducive to improving mental health.

You have to improve the system, fix it so a traumatized veteran would rather be receiving care than living on the streets. Once reaching out becomes the thing that those who’ve recovered from mental illness recommend doing rather than recommending against, then we can begin discussing ways to push the unwilling towards treatment.