You’re in manic swing now? That’s what I’d bet. Government Shrinker, Tigers Eye and EEDUDE are all right, I’d think. Until you get yourself stabilized on meds or in a sanitarium, you are a constant disruptive influence. Bipolar is no blessing!
Free Republic is NOT the place for therapy for your problem either. Bipolar patients respond well to rest and calm. Quietude and tranquility! Free Republic is a continual uproar, near chaos. So your post here is yet another clue that you are seeking the rush of the manic phase.
My Dad had severe bipolar, my wife’s close friend’s son also has it bad. I know very well how much of a disruption the manic swing can be. Please check yourself into a clinic or seek what medical help you can.
You would lose your bet. As I have said before, I have been in treatment continuously since 1994 and have not missed even one dosage of medication in 3 years. My doctor and counselor both say that I am stable and have been for years. Before you rush to conclude that bipolar is not a blessing, I would ask that you read my book which will be in print this fall. “blessed with Bipolar,” by Richard Jarzynka (Ya’Zhynka)
Those who have encouraged me to get into treatment (not knowing that I have been in treatment continuously for many years), seem to contradict themselves. On the one hand they encourage treatment as necessary and beneficial, but at the same time they discount the possibility that my treatment may have been so effective that I now am doing so well that I can look back and see my experience of bipolar as a blessing and write a book about it. It sounds like you are insisting that “treatment is the right thing to do, but unless you stay miserable and unproductive you are in denial.” That’s nuts!