These are interesting ideas and valid, generally. I can add only that I think a large part of really effective treatment in bipolar illness is intelligence about one's own personal makeup, both in how we react to things in our diet, how we manage our thoughts, their interpretation, and our ability to reason to find solutions that are promising if not miracle-workers.

Channeling the emotions is one of the strongest points made, in my view, and I think that's a large percentage of what one works on when clarity is finally achieved by having a minimum of drug interference--that, and recognizing when we've had something in our diets that is "upsetting the cart", so to speak.

Otherwise, it's simply living life one day at a time and working to maintain
chemical stability. With that, things seem to work rather well. Drug dependence just doesn't cut it for me, if you know what I mean.

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I disagree strongly with the notion that psychopaths (or antisocial personality disordered people) are natural leaders. They are anything but that, in general. Their whole makeup is one of deliberate deception, inabiliyt to recognize people as anything except objects to be manipulated or used, abused, or whatever. When confronted with real strength, the psychopath simply crumbles and his/her best idea is to call everything a lie. That can hardly be considered "natural leadership".

A large percentage of people incarcerated are psychopaths.