Involuntary Commitment of a Mentally-Ill Parent with Jeneen Interlandi

Harvard Nieman Fellow Jeneen Interlandi talks about her father’s bi-polar disorder. She describes the painful and extraordinary measures her family had to go through to get him into treatment, including restraining orders, getting him arrested, and hiring a lawyer to broker an agreement to get him to take medicine as a condition of leaving jail. Jeneen’s New York Times Magazine article, “When my Crazy Father actually lost his Mind.” was published on June 22,2012