In general, I'm against the government being able to force people to do things.

California is proposing a plan to force the homeless mentally ill into treatment. I can't say I'm all that clear on the details.

If we're being honest, almost all of us have meds and internet and stuff like that - and we have family or friends who cared enough for us to get us to the hospital and cared for us while we were incapacitated by this disease.

And part of that care was forcing us to do things we didn't want to do.

I'm generally in favor of this California plan. I think that people who have nobody to get them where they need to be with this disease need to have the government to do it. Is it really worse than rotting for the rest of your short life on skid row as a drug addicted untreated bipolar person? That sounds like the lowest circle of hell to me.