Stability trumps quality of life, psychiatrists don't know what they're doing and when the first few shots at the dart board don't work and you've got something that works to keep the big bad bipolar monster away they call it a day...doesn't matter how you feel as long as they are convinced you'll stay on those medications. Show you'll follow doctor's orders and you can cry about side effects, distress about appetite and they won't mind. Their drugs are dangerous and so is your "bipolar disorder" uh huh. They'll use all sorts of manipulation to keep you in your chemical cage, even pretend to care as hamster's does.

Psychiatrists are not there to help you. They are there to get you off the back of every body else.