Mental Health Advance Directive

Honestly I like the idea.

I've read this on other sites where others have done something to this affect or similar.

You write out your history, meds that work & don't work, your wishes per se, who is to do what and when, etc... and you give it to one whom you can trust through and through.

Sorta like an advance medical directive and should be used in terms of Bipolar because Bipolar is a medical illness that affects the emotion and mood part of the brain.

There are also what is called Power of Attorney where you designate someone for whom you absolutely trust without a shadow of a doubt to act as "you" when you are not able to be you.  That person then becomes you in the legal sense and well... can sign your name, make decisions, and do whatever is necessary.

Yet you got to be extremely careful about these cause that person does become you in the eyes of the law and whatever they sign, you've signed.

HIPPA-Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act. HIPPA was inacted by US congress in 1996. HIPPA was revised in appox 2005. Google-HIPPA it  will give you all the information you waht to know.

   You can draw up emergency plans encase you are unable to make your own decisions at said time. URL below is the DBSA site. I'm sure DBSA has advice on how to draw up these plans in a legal manner. Also tips on what provisions to concider.

http://www.dbsalliance.org/site/PageServer?pagename=home

Joe Buck