If there was a cure for BP and it had 0 side effects, how much would you be willing to spend on it? (Don't forget you could always take out loans and do some fundraising.)

I would probably spend $3000. That's it. I'm a cheapskate.

If I could do fundraising, then maybe I could get to $5000 or $6000.

[BastetsMuse]

Originally Posted by bluebicycle

If there was a cure for BP and it had 0 side effects, how much would you be willing to spend on it? (Don't forget you could always take out loans and do some fundraising.)

It's not so much as how much would I spend as how much I would have available to spend. I think of all the money that I spend on pdoc appointments and drugs, and the price for a cure could be pretty high and I'd spend it.

[venusss]

Max 100 euros. And then I would be like "**** this, I rather buy make up and booze with the money".

On serious note, how do you define "side effect" of a cure? What if I took the cure and decided to cut my hair because I am too old to have long hair, start wearing only decent colors, stop being activist and spend weekends in shopping malls instead, stop voting for the Pirate party but instead voted for those who promise me the most economically? What if I stopped caring about Ukraine and Syria and human rights and switch to moral dilemas such as "I like drinking coke, but it makes me fat, what should I do?" (or simmilar "normal people talk" I hear on the street and in public transport when I accidentally forget my headphones and have to hear the normal people talk?)

I subscribe to the Icarus Project school of thought. We are special. It may cause us problems... but we should treat the symptom that bother us, instead of trying to make ourselves "normal".

[pirilin]

Nada. My money goes to the blind. If I ever can keep some. Money bothers me. It's in my way.

Probably $8,000, assuming it'd cure the psychosis outside of mood episodes for me too (I have sza). I would probably save that much not going into hospitals and then actually being able to work full time.

[raspberrytorte]

I don't think I'd spend anything. This is going to sound weird, but it's just the way I am. I'm used to being this way. What if I was cured and it messed up some other part of my brain and changed my personality or character? Seems risky.

[MusicLover82]

I'd spend however much it took, even if it meant being in debt. With my illness, I get so many glimpses of "normalcy" and I would do anything to have that all of the time.

[otherg]

I'd take $25,000.00 out of my retirement savings to never again experience depression.

[wiretwister]

Originally Posted by raspberrytorte

I don't think I'd spend anything. This is going to sound weird, but it's just the way I am. I'm used to being this way. What if I was cured and it messed up some other part of my brain and changed my personality or character? Seems risky.

we like you the way you are too ... don't change a thing ...

[st0psign]

Id give anything to be stable all the time

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[Hawkke]

I would spend everything I have sell everything i own if possible or at least mortgage all my assets and ask everyone I know if I could have some money. Maybe stand outside in the street if I needed to raise more and a go fund me page or something.

I'm not making any money or living out my potential currently. If I didn't have bipolar I could contribute so much more to society and make back everything I lost and more. So it would be an investment well spent in my opinion, like an education for example.

But that's just me.

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[Hawkke]

Forgot to mention, currently I'm spending upwards of $6000 on treatment a year that doesn't provide much relief other than trying to get me to "get through" it until it passes. If I were to live 40 years that's $240000. So woo hoo savings right off the top!