What good does forced treatment do in the first place????? Many as soon as they get out of the forced treatment stop the treatment anyway because they didn't want anything to do with it in the first place or they wouldn't have gotten to the point where someone felt it was necessary to force them in the first place.......JMO.

I encountered a person who followed me on the California freeway for 40 miles.....we ended up driving to a place where we could get help rather than home. He claimed that he recognized me & wanted to make sure I got home safely.......yep, that's why he tried to run of off the road. Turned out when the sheriff's arrived that this guy claimes that the Viet Nam war was because of him......we knew immediately it was either drugs or he was dealing with a mental illness.......& sure enough he had just been released from the state care facility 2 days prior to his following me.......he definitely didn't choose to continue any treatment that he might have been forced to have......but his actions caused the police to end up involved again & they took him back to the facility he had been released from.

There was no way I would have taken the chance that he wasn't dangerous........but there are always consequences to our behavior. No one likes the drugs that are given......but not taking any medications that could help aren't the answer either......there will just end up being more & more negative consequences for these people until something seriously BAD happens. My job is to protect myself, not worry about the consequences of someone I feel might be placing my life in danger.

It's obvious that any forced treatment he might have had did absolutely no good however. One usually doesn't get cooperation out of people who are forced to do anything.

Sadly, it's usually not until they are totally out of control that they give the massive level of tranq's. If they could work with a pdoc in the first place to find the right doesage of meds that help....it propably wouldn't get to the forced treatment point in the first place.

I am sure that some also have the bad side effects like I have to almost every med.....so it's impossible for me to take AD's but sometimes we need to choose between the least of 2 evils to protect from even worse consequences......but when the mind isn't able to make those kind's of decisions rationally?????? Where do then end up in the long run......they become a product of the consequences of their actions & hopefully those actions aren't as bad as those of the guy in Aurora Co......the theater which is only 1 1/2 blocks away from where my own daughter lives & could have very well been in there with everyone else.

No not every one becomes that violent.....but sadly, we seem to find out about their violence AFTER THE FACT. Interesting how we want to control guns......& we want to control the giving of meds.....but we don't want to control the person who has the problem in the first place.

Just many thoughts on this subject with NO SOLUTION.