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Originally Posted by jacky8807
See there are many ppl who go med free and are bipolar and do fine. My niece who is 9 years old with type 1 diabetes would die very quickly without insulin. I know it's a common comparison but it's different
However some ppl without bipolar meds may die very quickly as well. But many do ok
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I too don't like the comparison. Our problems are not that localised. It's extreme only because of conflating very mild differences. A very complicated dynamic. The one involving insulin is rather simple. Our insulin response might be a bit off as well though, but very, very mildly and just at times, if at all (our meds can make us diabetic of course, not surprisingly and possibly indicative of an abnormality in our insulin response, besides other suggestive evidence).
That's why I don't like the word illness for what we experience. We don't get more sick when our immune system is lacking because of BP, for example. It's arguably an autoimmune "disease", in part, but far too mildly to deserve the name disease.
If you alter your conditions, your environment, maybe no-one needs meds. Of course, if/as you can't some of us are stuck. It's a societal problem, first and foremost.