[dmz]

Without intending to quarrel with you, your “they are simply hyper people” is a pretty gross oversimplification.

I could likely curl your hair with some of the stories I have collected over the last 10 years of dealing with my on the meds/off the meds bipolar mother.

Ripping up towels to make a washcloth is not the act of a hyper person.

[zencat]

Without intending to quarrel with you, your “they are simply hyper people” is a pretty gross oversimplification.

Same here, no conflict with you, but there is just no comparison. See it once and you'll know.

Everything changes. Ideation, focus, rate of speech, patterns of speech, word choice, mannerisms, posture, appetite, sex drive, no sleeping for days. When it happens to someone you know to the core, and you know they haven't taken anything like amphetamines, it's pretty creepy. They are quite simply out of control and you must babysit, sometimes for days.

Fortunately, there are many meds that are quite successful at preventing these episodes.

[Snoopers-868th]

No argument from me. I know there are some really bad conditions. I don’t dispute that. And this woman was one of them, constantly in and out of the hospital until she finally stayed on the meds. All I am saying is I really doubt the number of bi-polar diagnosis that are being made today along with a lot of the other conditions I think conclusions are reached in an all too willing society that believes a pill will ‘cure’ them.