Succint and so very right! I'd like to know how 'satisfaction' is measured in anyone who has ever been sectioned under the Mental Health Act. The need to section comes from the person's unwillingness to go to hospital voluntarily (assuming there are any beds for voluntary patients). The acute psychotic episode or severe mental illness can mean that the person is unable to make a rational choice at the time of admission, and sometimes for a number of weeks after this....so will all the people who are 'successfully' treated and become more rational later look back and view being sectioned as highly satisfactory? I'd say this would be unlikely.