Committable

Committable is a podcast about involuntary commitments. We focus on stories from people with lived experience as a window into complex conversations with attorneys, physicians, psychologists and more.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Where did this idea come from? Jesse interviews David Cohen about the origin and evolution of psychiatry.

What is an outpatient commitment? Jesse interviews Brian Stettin and Sera Davidow about Assisted Outpatient Treatment.

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.

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.

Cassidy Wilson called a crisis hotline to ask for help. What she received was multiple police officers coming to her home, handcuffing her, and forcibly taking her to an ER for evaluation. That evaluation led to almost a week of involuntary detention. In Season 2 of Committable we explore Cassidy’s experiences and continue our journey to deconstruct the systems of psychiatric det