Could you be committed?
Host Jesse Mangan intertwines personal experiences and interviews with attorneys and family members to try and figure out what happened twenty years ago when he was involuntarily committed by something called a Section 12.
 
Guests in this episode are:
Steve Schwartz: https://www.centerforpublicrep.org/
Bob Fleischner: https://www.centerforpublicrep.org/
Karen Owen Talley: https://www.publiccounsel.net/
Tom Mangan
 
Committable Contributors for this episode are:
Michelle Stockman
Episode transcript: https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committables1-episode-1transcript/2021/3/16/s1-episode-1-section-12-transcript
Committable is produced by Jesse Mangan, Jim McQuaid and Michelle Stockman.
https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committable
All music is from the song Reasonable by Christopher G. Brown.
https://christophergbrown.bandcamp.com/track/reasonable

What happens to the community?
Host Jesse Mangan interviews family members, friends and clinical psychologist Pat Corrigan to try and understand how involuntary commitments can impact communities around the person committed.
 
Guests in this episode are:
Pat Corrigan:
http://www.comingoutproudprogram.org/
http://www.stigmaandempowerment.org/
Tom Mangan
Jean Forward
Susan Mangan: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-two-track-mind/id1024725485
Steve Brown
 
Committable Contributors for this episode are:
Brian Patrick Williams: https://bravelybrian.com/
Episode transcript: https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committables1-episode-1transcript/2021/3/22/s1-episode-2-going-home
Committable is produced by Jesse Mangan, Jim McQuaid and Michelle Stockman.
https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committable
All music is from the song Reasonable by Christopher G. Brown.
https://christophergbrown.bandcamp.com/track/reasonable

Is coercion necessary?
Host Jesse Mangan explores experiences that led to 5 weeks in a psych ward and producer Jim McQuaid interviews Attorney Lauren Roy and Psychiatrist Paul Puri to gain some much needed perspective on commitments.
 
Guests in this episode are:
Paul Puri:
https://paulrpurimd.com/
https://www.ootify.com/
Lauren Roy: http://mhlac.org/
Tom Mangan
Jean Forward
 
Committable Contributors for this episode are:
Brian Patrick Williams: https://bravelybrian.com/
Michelle Stockman
 
Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee
http://mhlac.org/
Six Fundamental Rights in Massachusetts
http://mhlac.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/six_fundamental_rights.pdf
 
Episode transcript: https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committables1-episode-1transcript/2021/3/30/s1-episode-3-5-weeks
 
Committable is produced by Jesse Mangan, Jim McQuaid and Michelle Stockman.
https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committable
All music is from the song Reasonable by Christopher G. Brown.
https://christophergbrown.bandcamp.com/track/reasonable
 

How do you navigate this?
Host Jesse Mangan and Committable producer Jim McQuaid interview author Marya Hornbacher, psychologist Sasheen Hazel, and former EMT Joshua Yeager about their experiences navigating commitments.
 
Guests in this episode are:
Marya Hornbacher:
http://www.maryahornbacher.com/
Sasheen Hazel:
http://www.hazelapproach.com/
Joshua Yeager
 
Episode transcript: https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committables1-episode-1transcript/2021/5/3/s1-episode-4-perspectives-transcript
 
Committable is produced by Jesse Mangan, Jim McQuaid and Michelle Stockman.
https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committable
All music is from the song Reasonable by Christopher G. Brown.
https://christophergbrown.bandcamp.com/track/reasonablee 

Where did this idea come from?
Jesse interviews David Cohen about the origin and evolution of psychiatry.
 
Guests in this episode are:
David Cohen:
https://luskin.ucla.edu/person/david-cohen
 
Article on Involuntary Psychiatric Detention:
https://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.201900477
 
Episode transcript: https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committables1-episode-1transcript/2021/7/19/s1-episode-5-origin-of-an-idea-transcript
 
Committable is produced by Jesse Mangan, Jim McQuaid and Michelle Stockman.
https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committable
All music is from the song Reasonable by Christopher G. Brown.
https://christophergbrown.bandcamp.com/track/reasonable

What is an outpatient commitment?
Jesse interviews Brian Stettin and Sera Davidow about Assisted Outpatient Treatment.
 
Guests in this episode are:
Brian Stettin:
https://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/
“Stopping The Revolving Door”: https://vimeo.com/26171883
 
Sera Davidow:
https://wildfloweralliance.org/
 
Episode transcript: https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committables1-episode-1transcript/2021/9/9/s1-episode-6-outpatient-commitments-transcript
 
Committable is produced by Jesse Mangan, Jim McQuaid and Michelle Stockman.
https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committable
All music is from the song Reasonable by Christopher G. Brown.
https://christophergbrown.bandcamp.com/track/reasonable

What is the Baker Act?
In this episode Jesse interviews Bacardi Jackson from the Southern Poverty Law Center about The Baker Act, a mental health law in Florida that was used to involuntarily detain children over 37,000 times in one year.
 
Guests in this episode are:
Bacardi Jackson:
https://www.splcenter.org/about/staff/bacardi-jackson
 
Southern Poverty Law Center:
https://www.splcenter.org/
Costly and Cruel:
https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/com_special_report_baker_act_costly_and_cruel.pdf
 
Episode transcript: https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committables1-episode-1transcript/2022/2/14/s1-episode-7-baker-act-transcript
 
Committable is produced by Jesse Mangan, Jim McQuaid and Michelle Stockman.
https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committable
All music is from the song Reasonable by Christopher G. Brown.
https://christophergbrown.bandcamp.com/track/reasonable

And then what?
In the season one finale Jesse engages in conversations with friends and family about what it is like to live with these experiences.
 
Guests in this episode are:
Joanna Yip
Michelle Stockman
Tom Mangan
Susan Mangan
Jean Forward
Jim McQuaid
 
Committable Contributors for this episode are:
Brian Patrick Williams: https://bravelybrian.com/
Michelle Stockman
 
Episode transcript: https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committables1-episode-1transcript
 
Committable is produced by Jesse Mangan, Jim McQuaid and Michelle Stockman.
https://sensiblenonsense.squarespace.com/committable
All music is from the song Reasonable by Christopher G. Brown.
https://christophergbrown.bandcamp.com/track/reasonable