I ask because I’ve just been “diagnosed” with a chronic illness (YMMV. Second opinions, yay! 🙄), and I am not kidding when I say that the public healthcare system where I am IS TRYING TO TAKE OVER MY LIFE…
Monthly treatments, for the rest of my life (not gonna happen), blood tests every month, MRIs every 3 months, specialist appointments every 4-6, “compulsory” flu and coof injections, etc, etc, etc…
Some of that I may put up with (if it helps). Some I will not.
But I just wonder… Can they actually force me?? This isn’t America, I know (it’s Aus. Aus is fucked.), but… Surely it’s my choice, right, unless they can prove I’m “not of sound mind”..? Surely..?!?
More scared of losing my freedoms than the fucking disease, tbh. By a long shot…
I hate to reference Shitney Bears (Shitney Beers? Lol), here, but… No word of a lie, and without being at all “facetious”, if my abusive parents could somehow get “conservatorship” over me, I fucking guarantee you that they would/will… 😖
Thankfully, I’m not a drug addict, and I imagine (I hope, at least) that the laws here would be different, but it does… Worry me.
Hence why I will go along with at least most things (on OTHER doctor’s advice, not theirs. Yes, my gene donors are doctors, which… Makes it much worse), until I can get as fucking far away as possible, lol…
And then hire a lawyer, as soon as I can afford it, because I seriously would not put it past them to try to force me to move back in with them, as now, for “treatment”…
Seriously. 😒