Well, I guess it completely makes sense to me that BP folks are the druggies. I mean, it's almost a common sense indicator, or an example of ignorant intuition, if there is such a thing. What I mean is that BP is also the one mental illness most assigned to the "must" medicate column.

Not all drug use is drug abuse. Part of the PTSD program that most vets end up in includes a long look at that difference. One of the starting points for them is to acknowledge to them, of course you're using something, who wouldn't seek "some" recourse for feeling so badly. They get an in depth explanation of the impulse to self medicate.

Sure, it becomes all kinds of things depending on personal insight, drug of choice etc. But BP ppl generally are ravaged from the inside in a way they do not understand, but can see is "different" from most. Their impulse to change their mind, feeling, thinking, sure makes sense to me.

One of our national tragedies is our approach to the whole drug issue. We are routinely given only political information on drug use, even in the doctor's office. Penalty vs treatment, on and on. I always wonder what would be possible with just common sense and honesty in this millieu.