Since the Enlightenment, the debunking of religion, especially Christianity, has been a veritable growth industry. Nevertheless, religious belief remains widespread. Skeptics are best viewed as their dialogic partners and political adversaries. The United States has a National Institute of Mental Health, but it has no National Institute of Religion. Persons engage in actions.
Civil commitment is preventive detention of the innocent.
I submit that Hinckley's non-existent illness and psychiatric torture is emblematic of a large class of phenomena that Skeptics are not eager to be skeptical about. They have good reasons for their selective skepticism. As there is no psychiatry without psychiatric acts, so too there is no madness without mad acts. Psychiatry is an instrument of the coercive apparatus of the status. Skepticism about psychiatry would then become as politically correct as skepticism about religion is now.