Well, please forgive me for intruding in the Bipolar forum, I lurk because I was diagnosed as BP II a couple of years ago, then it was changed to PTSD, but I wonder from time to time.

It's only cool and hip and glamorous if you're Katherine Zeta Jones or Billy Joe Armstrong (of Green Day). If you can afford a treatment facility that is like a 5 star hotel, and you have the press fawning over you, and you pop up on the cover of People before you go back to your multi-million dollar life.

The reality for average people seems to be it's Hell, all the way around, emotionally, socially, financially, career-wise. It's SO hip and glamorous to have something that let's them lock you up in restraints like a criminal.