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CT laws specifically require two physicians and a court hearing to get someone committed. They don’t have a baker act, which is why it was easier to do when she was in California. People saying it is so easy to get committed either live in the US in a state where this is easier to do, or live outside the US with different laws.
I'd say there's a third option: they're unfamiliar with the actual process of obtaining care for someone who is mentally ill but resistant to treatment and think it's straight forward. It's not, and can be a protracted, agonising struggle with no guarantee of success -- which is why you sometimes see people's families eventually give up and instead mitigate the situation as much as they can, or simply become estranged. Sometimes walking away is all they can do. That said, Eugenia's family seem to be as resistant to the idea of her needing help as she is, so there's no chance, unless the extremely unlikely event transpires that she has an epiphany and has the fortitude to get herself out of that situation and advocate for herself. We all know that's not going to happen.