From what I know of suicide watch, it's demeaning, but - sorry if I'm out of line - justified in some cases, in the context of long term treatment? Not strip searching, God forbid, but watching. (Why would you need one when you can provide the other?) So OK, personal story coming up - when one of my best friends was (voluntarily) hospitalised for depression, and we heard she had made another suicide attempt, we all felt so powerless, one of the few comforts was that some hopefully kind or at least dispassionate professional was looking out for her.