Bipolarized: Rethinking Mental Illness

I guess what disturbs me about this story can't actually be extrapolated for people who actually have bipolar. This is a tale of someone who was misdiagnosed detoxing from lithium and gradually learning to meet their own emotions and inner selves. Along the way it picks up many of the themes of the anti pharma movement. The thing is if you really do have bipolar medication is one of your best options combined with other therapies. To put the development and use of lithium in perspective I recommend the documentary Troubled Minds about John Cade. I feel a lot of compassion for Ross and what he goes through but I wonder how much of it is about the drug and how much is about what it is simply like to have to carry the label of mental illness in this society. People who really have bipolar still need effective treatments.