If 1 Thing Leads To Another I Expect To Get Somewhere

The Daily Mail asks a question I've considered, more often than I'd like, when meeting others:

"Why ARE so many people being labelled bipolar? More and more celebrities say they have it, but here a top psychiatrist warns the disorder is far too readily diagnosed, leaving many trapped on 'zombie' pills"

No matter what the illness, misdiagnosis is always a medical hazard, and - without the proper amount of time for observation - bipolar disorder's a toughie. 

Especially because, after the disappearance of asylums, society's being conditioned to tolerate madness, partially through hiding it's public treatment behind validating medicalized language. 

Allowed to convince us of their "point of view" - without most sufferer's realizing, possibly, how skewed it is (and definitely without anyone else being so "offensive" as to admit it) or what a burden accommodation places on us all - the functionally insane become trickier to identify.

People now ask "What's normal?" far more than trying to see who's crazy enough to do some damage somehow.

"I don't know how I missed so many signs."

That was Jesse Jackson on the day his "bipolar" son went to prison last August. 

Incarcerated (with his wife) for corruption, Jackson, Jr. clearly had more energy than good sense, eventually spending $750,000 of the taxpayer's money on what essentially were impulse items - typical behavior for someone with bipolar. 

TMR outted Jr. as a crystal-gazing NewAger in 2010, an endeavor I - almost alone - have long associated with possible mental illness and further trouble down the line.

But then, to me, this all seems pretty obvious to begin with,....

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Sent in by Meade, BTW,...