Bipolars don’t act with logic, even on their meds.
Many bipolars don’t respond to all medications. It’s like mixing cocktails. Some work, some don’t. Then after they’ve worked for a while, they stop and you have to start all over again. Besides, they often won’t take them, because they are fine- it’s everyone else who is crazy.
My husband was on lithium, which was cheap. But he also needed one that was more than $500 a month. I used to get down on my knees and thank God every day we had good insurance. The thing is, if he had no income, most of the drug companies had programs to give drugs for little or no cost. But bipolars often can’t muster up the logic to even fill out a paper. If I tried to give my husband a paper, he would usually end up throwing something through the window. I did it all.
The sad thing is, society really has no answer for the brittle manic depressive. Family is the only one, and they usually alienate them all.
To this guy, holding Hillary’s headquarters hostage I’m sure made perfect sense. It’s classic. My husband had to be babysitted to make sure he didn’t do stuff like that, even taking expensive meds. And he had numerous expensive hospital stays.
You are correct. I feel sorry for him, and anyone who has persistent mental illness. The brain is an organ just like the heart, lungs, kidneys and skin. It's reasonable to think that the brain can be injured, and break down, too.
Makes perfect sense to me in any state of mind.
I had a NCO that I worked closely with for almost four years...returned back to the base three years ago...and had a stroke two years ago...and is now bi-polar. The air force gave him a medical discharge and he gets help...but he really isn’t capable of trusting 100 percent. I had lunch with him four months ago...and felt pretty sorry for him...but based on things he’s done in the past twelve months....you can’t judge him “safe”. His wife is helping him but I doubt she lasts more than three or four years.
I can understand this guy in New Hampshire....but there isn’t much that Hillary or state-mandated healthcare (other than paying for the meds) can do for this guy...if he won’t take his meds.
Been there,
done that,
I DO understand,
(Right down to praying I’d come home to a standing house and live pets).
and yes, there is nothing scarier that an OOC Bipolar.
About 20 or so years ago a very good friend's brother showed up out of the blue at my apartment here in S.E. Michigan. He had driven the 280 miles from northern Michigan because he had an appointment with the French embassy in Detroit the following morning (a Saturday) and he wanted to know if he could spend the night at my place. I said sure.....
Unfortunately "Dave" suffers from schizophrenia and it was obvious he had stopped taking his meds. So I called his brother who came across town that evening and he spent the evening with us. The next day "Dave" left and I guess he just headed back home.......
Its a terrible cycle if these folks aren't closely monitored. Because like you say, when they stop their meds they revert back to their own world and to them you are the crazy one.
"Dave" didn't develop his schizophrenia until into his 30's. Vietnam vet, U of Michigan grad, married and was a successful executive recruiter with his own business. Of course he lost everything and the last I heard he was once bagging groceries up north until another long time friend who ran the housing commission up there hired him to do odd jobs and stuff......