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Anonymous Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Lock up and committed (do they mean the same?)


Are both correct?

She got her mother committed/locked up for schizophrenia.

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"Committed" is the usual term among the general public for being involuntarily confined to a psychiatric hospital. "Locked up" generally refers to jail, and where I come from they don't put you in jail for that. But you could say "locked up" as a cruel jocularity.

— Anonymous

  • "Committed" is the usual term among the general public for being involuntarily confined to a psychiatric hospital.
  • "Locked up" generally refers to jail, and where I come from they don't put you in jail for that.
  • But you could say "locked up" as a cruel jocularity.
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"Committed" is the usual term among the general public for being involuntarily confined to a psychiatric hospital. "Locked up" generally refers to jail, and where I come from they don't put you in jail for that. But you could say "locked up" as a cruel jocularity.

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