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** The team also keeps Belkar bound and gagged after Nale uses a CharmPerson on him... and for an extra few hours the morning after the spell wears off, since the halfling is better company this way.
** An odd ''preemptive'' example: when laying an ambush for the [[EvilCounterpart Linear Guild]], one of the elements is Durkon's Holy Word, a spell that deafens (and banishes, if they aren't strong enough) [[CharacterAlignment Evil]] creatures nearby. Naturally this includes [[TokenEvilTeammate Belkar]] -- but this just serves to make him immune to Nale's [[CharmPerson Suggestion]], which he would have to hear to be affected by.

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' has examples for both werewolves (with the circle in ''Fool Moon'') and (semi) vampires who have trouble controlling their bloodlust (in ''Death Masks'').

* Played generally for laughs in ''Series/TheATeam'' with B.A.'s fear of flying that makes it necessary for the others to sedate him or
knock him out in order to be able to bring him along aboard any sort of aircraft.

* In ''[[Literature/TheHungerGames Mockingjay]]'', [[spoiler:Peeta]] is BrainwashedAndCrazy in such a way that the usage of InsaneEqualsViolent is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] and is restrained to ensure that he doesn't harm anyone, especially [[spoiler:Katniss]].

* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}''
** 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".
** Jake returns the favor to Marco later, preventing Marco from doing anything as [[spoiler:Visser One using Marco's mother as a host, falls to her DisneyDeath]] by holding him down while in tiger morph.
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' has examples for both werewolves (with the circle in ''Fool Moon'') and (semi) vampires who have trouble controlling their bloodlust (in ''Death Masks'').

* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', Cira holds Jerin in a way that makes him unable to move and puts her hand over his mouth, as [[spoiler:they're just beside the road on which the women who kidnapped Jerin are riding, and she plans to trick them into riding past. Jerin thinks she's one of them, so he struggles a lot.]]

* ''Series/StargateSG1'', in the first season episode "The Broca Divide". Most of the characters in the SGC end up locked up after being affected by a diseases SG-1 brought back from the planet.
* 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.
* ''Series/StargateUniverse'':
** Chloe being locked in her room while turning into one of the aliens.
** Similarly, Cornel Young is tied to a chair before swapping minds with one of the aliens to make sure the alien can't do anything to ''Destiny''.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
** [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Oz]] is confined on full moons. At first in a cage locked with a key, later however in a cage locked with a combination keypad which he can only operate when he is human.
** 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.

* In ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', T'pol in an episode with a Vulcan mining ship, is affected by some mind-altering ore.

* ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'':
** In early episodes, Mitchell does this for [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent George, the resident werewolf]]. Later, George finds ways to get the job done on his own.
** In a flashback, Mitchel's vampire sponsor ties him to a chair during his blood-detox.

* In ''Series/{{Firefly}}'', after one of River's bouts of madness (where she attacks Jayne with a knife) Mal has her confined to her quarters and only allowed out if accompanied by himself or Simon. Unlike most cases, River seems to willingly accept this limitation, as while confined to her room there's no lock or other restraint used. Later in ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', after a ''much'' more destructive round of violence, River is chained up in a locked storeroom, but subsequent events show that she only remained restrained because she knew the rest of the crew were terrified of her and could escape at any time.
* ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'':
** Conversed after Henry's [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent HAP]] powers first manifest. He tells Magnus to chain him up in the SHU if she doesn't have a way to stop it because he can't account for himself when he's "that thing".
** In the same episode, it turns out Glen Meyers restrained himself in a basement whenever his EyeBeams surfaced.
* In ''Series/SheWolfOfLondon'', Randy has a cell in her house into which she has her boyfriend lock her when the full moon rises.
* ''Series/{{Jekyll}}'' features a heavy restraint chair in Jekyll's office, set aside for Hyde's scheduled "out time".
* Lincoln from ''Series/The100'' is restrained by the Ark survivors while detoxing from the drug that turned him into a [[AxCrazy 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.
* Played generally for laughs in ''Series/TheATeam'' with B.A.'s fear of flying that makes it necessary for the others to sedate him or
knock him out in order to be able to bring him along aboard any sort of aircraft.

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* In ''FanFic/DesertedDistractions'', to stop Yami Bakura from causing trouble, Tea ties Ryou to a chair.

* Played generally for laughs in ''Series/TheATeam'' with B.A.'s fear of flying that makes it necessary for the others to sedate him or knock him out in order to be able to bring him along aboard any sort of aircraft.

* At the end of the [[WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan SML Movie]] "Chef Pee Pee's Mistake!", Chef [=PeePee=] goes into this after noticing the dog everywhere he goes and hides. To the point where he gets DrivenToSuicide and Officer Goodman has to take him to an insane asylum.

* In ''the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short ''WesternAnimation/BirdsAnonymous'', Sylvester, who is trying to go on a bird-free diet, handcuffs himself to a radiator so he won't harm Tweety. However, his appetite soon overpowers him and he rushes for the bird, tearing the radiator out of the wall as he does.

--> White Shadow: Oh, no! Am I gonna go crazy?
--> Turbo: Well, do you feel crazy?
--> White Shadow: Uh, no...not really.
--> Turbo: Do you wanna tell Chet that we're here?
--> White Shadow: A little bit. Also, I love the can.
--> Turbo: Right. We're gonna tie you up now, okay?
--> White Shadow: Okay.

* ''[[ https://my.w.tt/Ytnc4mIFQT Astral Journey: It's Complicated]]'' has [[Music/SpiceGirls Melanie]] locked up in a wheelchair and gurney thanks to her escape attempts. The second of which ended in disaster, following being admitted against her will due to her eating disorder was putting her health in endangered.

** Castiel of all people gets these in season 10, when he's [[spoiler:under Rowena's curse]] and can only partially control his outbreaks of violence. Sam and Dean set him up with some fairly long chains inscribed with anti-angel sigils attached to a ring on the floor, so he can at least move around a little and help them research during his periods of lucidity.

* ''Film/TheInvisibleManReturns'' (1940) has Geoffrey Radcliffe (Vincent Price) ask a friend and lab colleague to restrain him if he shows signs of insanity (a known side effect of the invisibility formula). After a tense dinner scene with said friend and his love interest, Radcliffe is subdued and chained to a chair [[spoiler: and does indeed attack the friend]].

* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', Cira holds Jerin in a way that makes him unable to move and puts her hand over his mouth, as [[spoiler: they're just beside the road on which the women who kidnapped Jerin are riding, and she plans to trick them into riding past. Jerin thinks she's one of them, so he struggles a lot.]]

* In ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', at the end of season 2, Crichton is restrained in order to keep [[spoiler: the Neurochip inside his brain]] in check. It doesn't work too well, given that [[spoiler: Scorpius' Neural Clone]] allows him to talk his way out on one occasion.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' episode "Haunted", the team start to think Robin is insane when he continuously claims to see his arch-enemy Slade when they can't. He threatens to hurt them if they get in the way of his hunt for Slade, so they knock them out and strap him down until they can find out what's wrong with him. [[spoiler: As it turns out he'd inhaled a drug that affected his nervous system, meaning only he could see Slade and his body reacted to Slade's attacks as if they were real.]]

* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' 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".

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** Chloe being locked in her room while turning into the aliens.

* In ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', T'pol in an episode with a Vulcan mining ship, is affected by some mind altering ore.

* Lincoln from ''Series/{{The 100}}'' is restrained by the Ark survivors while detoxing from the drug that turned him into a [[AxCrazy 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.

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''

--->'''Durkon:''' ''(gagged)'' Mmph mrph mmmph mmf mrf mrrrph mrph!\\

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

* Happens twice to Batman in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', both as a result of the Scarecrow's toxins. The first time Bruce inhales a fear-inducing hallucinogen and is confined in Arkham Asylum while suffering various paranoid delusions, unable to convince his caretakers that the Scarecrow's plan is actually real. The second time, a fear-eliminating toxin turns him into a psychopath, and Robin ties him up against his will to protect his enemies.
** Briefly shown in an issue of the tie-in comic as part of standard treatment for hysterical victims of Jokerization.

* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', Castiel, Bobby, and Sam lock Dean in Bobby's panic room to stop him getting to Michael.
** Bobby and Dean also lock Sam in there to keep him away from the demon blood so he can "detox".

Related to: CruelToBeKind.

Played for laughs in ''Anime/DaphneInTheBrilliantBlue''. Gloria is so aggressive and impulsive that her co-workers at Nereids often have to knock her out and/or tie her up to keep her from hurting them, damaging their office, or jeopardizing their missions.

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* ''Series/BeingHuman'':

* 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 purported goal of helping them get better.

* ''Film/TheInvisibleMan Returns'' (1940) has Geoffrey Radcliffe (Vincent Price) ask a friend and lab colleague to restrain him if he shows signs of insanity (a known side effect of the invisibility formula). After a tense dinner scene with said friend and his love interest, Radcliffe is subdued and chained to a chair [[spoiler: and does indeed attack the friend]].

* Paige in the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' is a new Were-cat who can't control herself when she changes, and can't even control her changes (it can happen anytime, not just on full moons), so she has a nice room to herself in the basement of Hawthorne Cottage, only she is locked in most of the day. She does have Internet access, which is a rather important consideration given that she is the only known [[BrainComputerInterface cyberpath]].