Dear Bipolarbear,

so you try to tell me that scientists, health professionals and experts are completely honest and there is no reason to worry about anything? Let's welcome research with open arms no matter what dangers are ahead?

I wish I could include here the hundreds of emails that I received from members of BipolarConnect who need congitive therapy and cannot afford it. I wish that I could send the many emails of how doctors give up on patients and how family rejects sufferers. Just in the past two days I got such emails. So desperate was a woman that she had to improvise and offer some cognitive therapy to a person with bipolar who responded well and she writes how insensitive, unprofessional and cruel some people are. How the focus is all on medication and the attempt to FIX the person who has become an illness itself.

You see the danger is not in the research itself it is in the people who use such research findings often with hidden agendas to make more profits. This is what we have to be careful about. Mental illness is also a business that makes many people very wealthy so I would say that what you say is nice and very heartfelt but does it really apply in our corrupted world? I am not so sure. If people were genuine and honest I would agree with you.

For example an honest society would seriously do research on medication interaction: how doea lithium react with such other drug? Yet this is not dones. Too expensive and to much of a burden on profit. So it is not done. This is the sign of an irresponsible society after profit not people's interest as well.

It is not the research and not the scientist who are the problem. Scientists often do have good intentions. But these intentions are picked up by powerful people who have dollar signs in their eyes. Also look at how many reply you got from your post. Not as many as I did. This says something I think.

Alfredo

You have a nice day now...and keep writing by speaking out we learn and healp each other.

Genetics must play some role in it because every male on my father's side has had some type of mood disorder.  All were raised in different environments.  Unfortunately in the past, most of them were raised in an abusive home with a male figurehead who suffered from it.

My son is the first to actually get treatment for it.  He is also the first to be raised in a non-abusive home.  My husband doesn't have any type of emotional/anger type problems.

It's weird that it's only the boys in my family from my dad's side.  The girls suffer from periodic depression but not bipolar.