Or you get treatment for cancer and live. My sister went through rounds of chemo and radiation. They had to stop because they had given her way to much and they didn't think she would live, deemed it terminal. Months later her cancer was in full remission. She no longer has any cancer at all. Cancer can be cured.

In my case, I have a community order that states that I am to comply with medication and psych appointments. Which is what you are talking about Lizard Lady. The thing is tho, when I signed this I it was under a guise and no one explained it to me, I was not in a good mental state either. It was made part of my disability agreement. The problem is that this is not just the norm, how many people in Canada are on disability with no such agreement? Tons. I was never a threat, I am not violent. I am am not nor was suicidal. I was going through some depression at the time. I have a dx of Bipolar, I am not a criminal, I had never been hospitalized at that point, and that was the very beginning of my treatment. I had just finished college and was doing nothing more than raising my three kids and looking for employment after college. I was stressed and depressed after coming out of an abusive divorce and having to flee with my kids and no belongings besides a suitcase to start a new life.. who wouldn't be stressed and depressed?

Now I am in full breech of that community order. The meds I tried for 7 years and only made my condition worse and worse. So I tried a different route of yoga, mindfulness, cutting out gluten which was an issue for me.. one that does have psychological effects, changing my perspective on life, changing thinking patterns and coping skills. I have not had an episode of depression, mania, or psychosis since. However, apparently doing this can come with serious consequences for myself. Why was I even made to sign that? There is a serious problem there. They are not strictly using these orders for people who are a threat to the public, they are using them on people who never did anything to have these orders placed on them in the first place. I don't do anything for anyone to presume I am a problem to be dealt with. I don't even drink, I don't do drugs. I am working part time, I take care of my children, I take care and am responsible and accountable for my self and my life, there is just nothing there to imply I need this order. Now getting the order reversed is a whole other matter. They are not easy to get reversed once you have one.

I don't have all the answers, but I do know that the majority of us are not a public threat. The fact that my meds did seem to make me worse off also is a bit of a problem in this and I am not the only person who found this, a lot of the meds create the exact symptoms you are taking them for, we just call them side effects. Just because someone take their meds does not mean they will be "better" and not commit crimes.