@bewildered You are encouraging the mother to lie. Psychiatric hospitalization is not some benign intervention, and I have an old saying, "violence and coercion, begets violence and coercion," the research on involuntary hospitalization bears this out; I am not confident about the ability of psychiatric inpatient hospitals to be able to treat people without harm, especially on an involuntary basis, she said it herself her lean son has become a fat potato, but a good outpatient psychiatrist could absolutely help mitigate this horrible side effect. and being fat can kill you... slowly.