Don’t most bipolar episodes end in less time than it takes to drive cross country in a premeditated attack on the Pentagon after posting about it? And if it re-activated, wouldn’t it likely focus on something else?
I have not followed this story with great detail, but I had guessed he made the posting from somewhere in DC, so that would be a lot closer to the event.
I understand he was a heavy pot user and probably thus kept fueling his paranoia.
Of course drugs are a victimless crime /s
No.
In my experience (two bipolar family members), episodes tend to increase in severity and length as time progresses, especially when left untreated. This is not something that just goes away on its own after fully established.
The ironic and tragic part of bipolar disorder is that the seriously ill can feel very well at the height of a manic episode. They don’t think they need meds, they think they know everything, they may show psychotic, paranoid, or schizophrenic symptoms, and they function with a hair-trigger temper that can be very dangerous.
Worse yet, there’s not much that can be done until they break a law. To get a disturbed one off the street, a judge must rule that he’s a danger to himself or others, and that’s very, very hard to prove until he’s done something actionable.
Moreover, once taken off the street and hospitalized, the state cannot keep the patient locked up once he’s back on his meds and stabilized. So he’s let back out, doesn’t like the reality and sluggishness that the meds induce, and quits taking them. And the cycle begins again . . .
In a word, no.