Hi Atlas- I have been trying to stay updated with you. As it relates to Bipolar/Manic-Depressive disorder, I surely can't claim to be an expert but I am getting very recent experiential credits in dealing with a roomate who has a rather severe form of this. It is for sure treatable and can be pretty well effectively managed that way but not without an awful lot of difficulties. The difficulties I think lie in the fact that it may take a while to arrive at a proper medicinal formulation and then the most troubling and extremely common situation is that sufferers of this routinely go off there meds during the manic cycle. During the manic cycle of the illness, you feel so exceptionally good about yourself that taking meds seems so passe and unneeded and interfering I guess.
As I have mentioned on my own thread, I am as patient a person as they come. I have fairly minimal exposure to this young guy with the Bi-polar (and he has ADHD as well compounding matters)and it has been a helter-skelter experience in being around him the little bit that I am. The moods of these people can turn on a dime. It is a battle that I do not envy either the person with it or the loved ones deeply affected. That's as much light as I can shed on it.
You make some interesting points regarding the potential hypocrisy of the matter.
