Isn't It Even Worse to End Up in a Psychiatric Unit?

I suppose it depends on whether you're mentally ill or not. So if you were actually psychotic, like Jasmine was, then you need your treatment. If she did end up going to prison on a life sentence, which is what the Crown Prosecution Service were pushing for, then she almost certainly wouldn't have voluntarily taken medication. She would have remained psychotic, probably with deteriorated, got worse and worse. In that scenario, prison would have been horrific for her. I always imagine the opening and closing scenes of Amadeus, the Mozart movie, where Salieri is in a madhouse. And I just think, oh, God, I can't think of a worse place to