History Main / KindRestraints

* In ''VideoGame/GHOSTSquad'', several segments have you detaining hostages with handcuffs, something that civilians often associate with ''arresting a criminal suspect''. But you don't want panicked civilians ("I'm not a terrorist!") just running around potentially disrupting a precision anti-terrorist operation (even if they don't mean to do so), and some of those civilians could actually be [[WoundedGazelleGambit enemies in disguise]], which is why you have to detain them.

In many works, a character can end up being NotHimself. He or she could even hurt someone, or admit to someone that they are worried that they might hurt someone. Sometimes, they're just acting oddly enough to give people reason to ''think'' that they're crazy and/or dangerous to themselves and others. Often, their freedom is taken away by their own friends or allies to keep them safe and unable to harm themselves or other people. This could be by restraint, sedation, or confinement.

** Angel himself in "Somnambulist". He lets the others tie him up when he's afraid he's killing people in his sleep. "Eternity" might or might not count... he was having a pseudo-[[TheSoulless Angelus]] episode brought on by drugs, so he was evil when they chained him up. However, he was left tied for a while by Cordy and Wes later at the end of the episode.

** The werewolf Nina comes to Wolfram & Hart monthly to be locked up.

In many works, a character can end up being NotHimself. He or she could even hurt someone, or admit to someone that they are worried they might hurt someone. Sometimes, they're just acting oddly enough to give people reason to ''think'' that they're crazy and/or dangerous to themselves and others. Often, their freedom is taken away by their own friends or allies to keep them safe and unable to harm themselves or other people. This could be by restraint, sedation, or confinement.

* John Gage gets it a few times when he's feverish and delirious in [[http://tbillingsemergencyfanfic.com/storiesbytammy.htm this]] ''Series/{{Emergency}}'' fic series. The problem is, it backfires MAJORLY. As a child, John was abused and sometimes had his hands tied by his uncle, and still suffers a type of PTSD from it. Even under normal circumstances, the idea of being restrained frightens him. But when he's sick or injured, confused and not thinking clearly, the restraints trigger flashbacks and the result is sheer terror and blind panic. He'll scream and cry and fight with everything he has to free himself, usually only responding and calming down when he hears Roy's voice. Brackett sees this the first time he treats him, and later stipulates no restraints, ever. But, twice, nurses ignore orders and do it anyway, outraging the doctor, nurse Dixie and the rest of John's friends.

** The team has to tie up Jake when he's accidentally infested, to starve out the Yeerk in his head, and they have to constantly watch him on top of it, because they know the Yeerk will try to morph to free him from the restraints. They know for sure the Yeerk's in his head when he refuses to wait out the three days, which he would have done normally (it's not a question of trust, Yeerks being {{Puppeteer Parasite}}s), also when he calls Ax "Andalite filth".

* ''Literature/{{Cut}}'' is about a fifteen year old cutter whose family placed her in a mental health facility once they found out that she'd been engaging in SelfHarm. As well as providing therapy, the facility also has a policy against "sharps," which they call anything that can be used for SelfHarm. This even extends to pencils and glass. However, Callie ''does'' find ways to engage in SelfHarm despite this...

* In ''Literature/TheShining'' by Creator/StephenKing, Jack Torrance starts going violently insane to the point where his wife Wendy has started carrying a knife around in the event that she has to use it on Jack in self defense. When she manages to get him unconscious after he tries to hurt her, she locks him in the pantry of the Overlook to protect herself and their son Danny and so that he won't starve in the time it takes for help to arrive. [[spoiler:He does manage to escape, though.]]

* Lincoln from ''Series/The100'' is restrained by the Ark survivors while detoxing from the drug that turned him into a [[AxeCrazy Reaper]], and he insists they keep him tied up for a while even after the drug's out of his system, because he doesn't trust himself after the things he did while Reaperfied.

** The werewolf Nina comes to Wolfram & Hart every month to be locked up.

** In the episode "Living Conditions" Buffy starts rooming with a new girl her own age, then starts to get annoyed about those kinds of little things that roomies do to annoy each other. Then she starts to get delusional and claiming that the girl is 'evil', and that she's going to have to 'slay' her, which prompts the rest of the Scoobies to tie her up to stop her while trying to find out why she's suddenly gone crazy. The restraints are less than effective at holding her, though Buffy is proven right.
** Buffy chains Angel up to keep him from hurting himself or attacking others after his return from hell, when he's still feral and wild. In Season 7 she does the same to Spike.

* ''Series/{{LazyTown}}'': When Sportacus's feet go cuckoo in the episode [[Recap/LazyTownS1E2Defeeted "Defeeted"]], the kids do everything they can to keep him still, including grabbing ahold of his boots and even tying up his leg with rope. Neither seem to end up working though.
* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': In "Queen of Hearts", Aurora knows full well that she cannot be trusted so long as Cora has her heart. So she forces Emma, Snow and Mulan to tie her to Rumpelstiltskin's cell until Cora has been defeated. Mulan promises to get Aurora's heart back, and eventually succeeds.

** In ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', Sheppard is confined to his room while turning into an Iratus-bug hybrid. He asked for it, he warned everyone, yet no-one seemed to take him seriously.

* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', the scene in the basement of Castle Heterodyne where Agatha has her minions [[StrappedToAnOperatingTable strap her to an operating table]] during an experiment which required her to allow an earlier quasi-DemonicPossession to reassert itself. Unfortunately, some other helpers show up during the experiment, and don't understand why their dear friend is restrained, so they "help" her...

** The team also keeps Belkar bound and gagged after Nale uses a CharmPerson on him... and for an extra few hours in the morning after the spell wears off, since the halfling is better company this way.

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* In the United States, a person can be involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital on the grounds of likelihood of harm to themselves or others or grave disability, defined as inability to provide for one's own needs as a result of their mental disorder. Even when a patient voluntarily commits themselves, the environment in a mental institution is such that patients are unable to escape or harm themselves, with the goal of helping them get better.
** In the UK's mental health and learning disabilities services, physical restraints are more likely to be used than mechanical restraints, with staff not allow on the wards until they have been trained in how to use it properly. Within that there are two different forms of physical restraint training depending on with service you are working for: pain based restraint for mental health wards, and pressure based for learning disabilities, and they should only be used as a last resort (De-escalation techniques and/or medication should be the first and second options) to stop someone from either seriously hurting themselves or you. Prone restraints shouldn't be used in learning disabilities services, due to the fact there's a serious risk of ''death'' if it is used for too long. Supine restraints are used in learning disabilities instead.
* Suicide watch in any form, which is basically restricting the watchee, if not outright confining them, so that he or she can't kill themselves. Of course, when this is done with death row prisoners, this veers more into CruelMercy territory.
* People who are severely high or intoxicated must sometimes be restrained to prevent them from hurting themselves or others.
* There's an unfortunate urban legend floating about that a person suffering a seizure will injure their mouths, even bite off their own tongue, unless one puts something in their mouth to keep them from doing so. [[SubvertedTrope Not only is this not true, putting something in the mouth of a person having an epileptic seizure can damage their teeth and gums.]]
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* ''FIlm/CityWar'' have Dick purposely handcuffing his bestie, Ken, who's about to go on a SuicideMission against the mob who killed his family, with Dick deciding to go alone because he's got "nothing to lose". Ken managed to break those cuffs anyways and arrives in a BigDamnHeroes moment to reinforce Dick using a shotgun.

* In ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', Jim goes a little nuts and starts digging graves in the blazing hot Atlanta sun, and has to be restrained by being tied to a tree until he comes to his senses.