HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A new Texas law now allows police to detain people during a mental health crisis, even if they don't pose an immediate threat.

Senate Bill 1164, which recently went into effect, changes the threshold for when law enforcement can intervene. Under the previous law, police needed to see an imminent danger to act.

Now, officers can detain individuals they believe are suffering from severe mental illness that they are not able to see for themselves.

It's called anosognosia, and Eric Smith is very familiar with it.

"I was driving down the highway at 90 miles an hour, thinking spies from another country were chasing me," he said.

Smith, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, told ABC13 that he was very ill but could not recognize it. It took getting arrested years

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