Frustration grows as lawmakers try to expand involuntary treatment authorization [Video]

(WXYZ) — The 7 Investigators have been exposing problems in the psychiatric hospitalization process.

Now some lawmakers are trying to make changes to who’s allowed to fill out some crucial court forms that can hold patients against their will.

A clinical certificate is a key part of the process when someone is hospitalized against their will.

They look like harmless pieces of paper, but clinical certificates are powerful documents in Michigan’s mental health system.

“I’ve never been treated so poorly, like I wasn’t a human being,” said Bri Jackson.

VIDEO: Michigan doc pre-signed blank forms that can rob you of your freedom:

Michigan doc pre-signed blank forms that can rob you of your freedom

Jackson says she was held against her will inside the Ascension Providence ER back in 2022 for depression. One of the documents used to hold her was a clinical certificate. A doctor wrote on the form …