Honestly, that is why I am out of the system completely.

It is horrible that shrinks think human rights don't matter for crazies. Nobody is forced into a treatment for physical illness (don't all the med proponents just LOVE to compare these two?). Forced treatment is breach of basic human rights, it's traumatizing, it can completelly shatter chances of recovery and it is focused more on the others than the actual patient.

You should find out what your options are, especially if the current treatment is not doing it for you. One should take meds cause they help, not cause their shrink says: "take your meds or...."

Too much of the experts focus on meds way too much. So this "how you view yourself effects if you take meds or not..." So you view yourself ill and gladly take pills... and? Are you better? Or do you view yourself as broken being and spend a lot on pills? Same with the four stages of "recovery" thing that was posted in success stories. Fretting about taking pills and reading books on bipolar and seeing yourself as ill... how is that a recovery?