there's lots of yak yak about "episodes" turning your brain into mush.

But is it simply the episodes? Or is it all the booze and drugs that one takes through the episodes? Is that the bad sleep and bad eating that hurts your brain? Or dare to say, the meds one takes, to control their problems?

I just don't think bipolar in itself is doing anything to your brain or harming you... it's the actions that result from it.