you could be right. I am wrong a lot of the time even when I think I know everything
I will say I research a lot but that could be a good or a bad thing I guess. I do tend to get sucked into Mad in America as well as other antipsychiatry movements reading into the midnight hours. I do feel the population is overmedicated in general though.
But after that one psychotic break I never had another one. Paranoia mild delusions etc yes but nothing that horrifying (and it was HORRIFYING and more akin to a schizophrenic type of break with reality) has happened again. Some research points to overmedicating causing bipolar to become more of a chronic illness rather than cycle like it use to in the past.
Going by my worst episode they would antipsychotic me into oblivion for the rest of my life with the potential of massive weight gain diabetes low quality of life sedation etc
Ah who knows. I may be back here in a month swallowed whole by an episode and begging for meds lol