I found the topic of forced treatment very intriguing today. Based on Jolijn’s presentation today, I would categorize the U.S. as being a country that uses forced treatment. When I first heard Jolijn use the term forced treatment, I thought that it must be something terrible. After reading her bio, I think she had a terrible and unfortunately not uncommon method of treatment. This caused me to think about whether or not I felt that forced treatment in the U.S. is something that should be accepted. Jolijn expressed that real care is possible and can be done without force. I question how realistic that is. This past year I had a friend with suicidal thoughts and who acted on them at least once while at school. This girl did not feel like she had a problem and she did not want to go to the hospital and get help. Her behavior was becoming increasingly more dangerous to herself. In a situation like this one, I don’t think this girl would have ever gotten better without forced treatment. At what point do you draw the line between forcing someone into treatment and not? Jolijn described the forced treatment as a sort of brain washing. I do not think that every forced treatment is like this. I wish that Jolijn had expanded upon what alternatives there were to forced treatment. In many situations family and friends are not the right support system becuase they have no education on how to help the individual who needs support. I think there is a way to improve forced treatment, but I am not totally sure that just doing away with it entirely is the right solution.