Bipolar is an illness treated with medication and psychotherapy. I can't see what a $70,000 expenditure in a facility has to offer that can't be accomplished as an outpatient, or by a short hospital stay (which you don't seem to meet the criteria for). I firmly believe that your money would be far better spent on a good psychiatrist and therapist over long-term outpatient treatment. It takes almost everyone months to adjust their medications, and some don't even reach full effect for 4-6 weeks. Finding the right meds is a long, frustrating process for some of us, and I don't see how that could be done in 60 days. Management skills are a life-long learning process.

I have a friend who gets ECT regularly (about every 2 years) and has a professional, responsible,full-time position as a psychiatric nurse, plus is going to school full-time in a Master's to PhD program. The minimal memory loss that she gets disappears over time. Her depression is med resistant and without ECT she is eventually non-functional.