"How do you afford to be bipolar?"

Please allow me to try a little experiment of mine here. I will rephrase that question and ask all of you, instead:

"What price do you pay to be a bipolar person". Is that okay? that sounds pretty bad but never mind that, you get my meaning, right?

It's all about affordable healthcare and the solution they provide. We do pay a lot of price just to live the life itself, a lot of sacrifices, in terms of career, watching kids growing up, putting food on the table, etc. Finances, sure, it gets expensive especially under the Obama care? Well, you guys are the expert on that sort of things, I suppose it's the result of all the difficulties we have to face, so that even if the financial side of things are sorted, your bipolar life may not be as rosy as you may think. We've all seen already that some of bipolar folks are well off, managing their medication as well as their careers. We all wish that we are successful at life, but that won't be the case for everyone. Life beat us up and we get back up. We all have one shot at life, things have to go up. So what can we do about it?

I'm not trying to belittle the current financial difficulties that some of you are facing, I'm just going to suggest that how about we look for alternatives. Medications. Part of this gigantic economic waves that we all have to ride through, being bipolar, might mean that you'll be on medication as an only method to your recovery. The best evidenced based treatment is saying that you'll be on meds forever. And you'll still likely to be depressed most of the time.

Bipolar Advantage

I just started watching his video on youtube, he condesed 55hrs of material into just 8 minutes, he called it introspection. As I started talking to you here, I think it wasn't too bad to call us here as 'bipolar person(s)'. First and foremost, we are person(s) who wished to have a happy and productive life. So to be able to afford to be the person we wish to be, this issue should be looked at from all sides, by that I mean we work with being a bipolar. Obviously, I'm not a Tom Wooten, so I should stop myself here. I haven't even heard what he does, the alternatives, treatment or otherwise, that's what I'm saying that we should look out for too.

Well, before I leave, let me just say what my agenda is, right here. I personally think that the talk in this part of the forum and the medication talk is way disproportional, psych central itself host his blogs, we are the ones going through the life of being bipolar.

Hmm...so, we don't talk as much as I think about medication here? I admit maybe I was wrong. I had a point though, gave you something to think about? I know y'all try to reduce, use less medication and all that. And those branded meds costs too much, just like paying extra for branded clothes or something, I say that we should still think about this issues and discuss more.

Thanks for reading.