El Greko,

I don't think the 'system' could have forced Gadd to seek help. The provisions of the Mental Health Act are primarily concerned (in the first instance at least) with the physical safety of people suffering from mental illnesses or personality disorders. People detained under the act are normally detained because they pose an acute risk to themselves or others at the time that they are taken into detention. The act provides for them to be compelled to submit to certain forms of treatment (the administration of drugs, for example) but cannot compel people to look at their own behaviour and to take responsibility for it. Mental health workers can help patients do so but only if they are willing to try to do so in the first place. So no, I don't think you can blame the system.