Commitment of C.A. v. Center for Mental Health

OPINION

RATLIFF, Senior Judge.

STATEMENT OF CASE

Respondent-Appellant C.A. appeals the trial court’s order of involuntary commitment for a period of one year. We affirm.

ISSUE

C.A. raises one issue for our review, which we restate as: Whether the trial court erred in concluding that there was clear and convincing evidence to warrant C.A.’s involuntary commitment.

FACTS

C.A. has been diagnosed as “schizophrenic, paranoid type,” 1 a mental illness characterized by “suspiciousness.” The mental illness resulted in C.A.’s commitment to out-patient treatment in 1992 and 1994. The latter commitment appears…