Hello Tabby -
I am a sufferer from Bipolar who was for years on various medications, and could not remember things I had just said or done, but brought up a daughter with help from social services, and felt frustrated at being ill. She survived and wrote in her university dissertation about her experinces.
Now my life is far better, as I am without the side effects. I consider myself normal, and even work. Socially I am 'abilified' to interact with people, in other words, I'm living. Only regret is what the family had to go through before.
You are onto the most exciting thing in medicine.