tell me about it sometimes you come off as brilliant and others well (you being admin here) i'll admit a bit touchy on certain matters.
but it's okay there are remedies that are'nt listed in the u.s.p. that hopefully one day you'll discover.
i'm no saint i take crazy pills tegretol levels me, you should out look into it inositol is a good example fish oil can heal your brain too because the brain is made basically  fat and fish oil is basically a fatty acid  iirc.
less side effects.
but the psychiatric profession ran it up my ass so, i'm leary of men wearing white coats taking notes that also tend to smile too much to hide thier sinister intentions.
there are ways of beating bipolar illness with being aware of what triggers it's onset and avoiding those triggers and researching things that help the brain along.

stress is a big factor in mental illness not to go off topic but studies have shown the childeren of parents who endured severe stress over a long period of time (world war II for example) have bipolar disorder/clinical depression because stress can impact genetics in a big way.

there is prooven scientific evidence that prolonged stress erodes the telomers of dna strands and one year of prolonged stress can be tantamount to aging 6 years.
you ever notice a young vibrant president for example goes into office and 1 or 2 years later you see his hair graying and signs of aging?
well this gets passed on to offspring.
just look at the Russians their life is very brutal and they are also mostly crazy people with nuclear weapons.

chemical pollution can also cause mental illness so can infectious diseases it can be very perplexing to find the root cause of mental illness and there is no $$ in a cure so the drug companies only give drugs to treat symptoms so they can have lifelong customers.
if the drugs cause problems then it is very easy for the psychiatric profession to say see the illness is worsening and more/different drugs are needed to treat this.
this lie can easily go unpunished because of societie's dim view of the mentally ill they have no say.
this is how hitler marginalized the undesireables so they could be singled out for "special treatment" and the Bush dynasty could get richer as ibm was centered in new york and the punch card machines had to be serviced every month on site by ibm.
so they knew and approved of this special treatment of the invalids and the mentally incompetent among the other undesirables such as juden, the intellectuals, the homosexuals, the gypsies, the commies, et. al.
ever wonder why german prisoners of war were treated so nicely?
and many good german minds were imported into u.s. after the war?
ECT is a good example of psychiatric oppresion ect turns someone into a zombie unable to function generating another lifelong customer of the psychiatric industry.
before that it was icepick lobotomies or open lobotomies where holes are drilled in the frontal lobe and alcohol squirted in to kill the brain.
but this became bad public relations so frequently now antipsychotics aka chemical restraints are used to lobotomize people unwittingly.
it is now very difficult to have ect done because three psychiatrists have to sign off on it, some people are so depressed they beg for ect and are turned away.
this is because of it's stigma.
now if a euphamism such as "electo restorative therapy" were used it might be useful, as ect generated billions in revenues. just from a few dollars worth of electricity.

ever wonder why german prisoners of war were treated so nicely?

Actually only scientist and people who were usefull against commies were treated nicely.
Americans treated german POW's much worse than vice versa.
But German camps for British,American,French ad other POW's were luxury hotels compared to those
inended for Russians and undesirables.
Not mentioning concetration camps for naturalized Japanese and in some extent German Americans.
German's tried to do everything to avoid war with U.S.,there were even German Nazi summer "camps
of friendship" before the war on U.S. soil.but Roosevelt needed to dance as his puppetmasters
ordered him...

Back on subject...of course pharma has no intention in fixing mental illnes,but making someone an addict!
Otherwise MDMA and similar drugswould be lagal for decades now!

Root of every mental illnes in every person is different but stress is main catalyst.
For example many people who are delusious and detached from real world are simply diagnosed "shizophrenic",
while ther are no two same cases of shizophrenia.
This kind of generalization is almost same with cancer,there is no scush thing as universal cancer,
but many similar diseases that look alike.

You are right,mental patient that can be easily cured are screwed up by bad doctors.
Everyone doctor who treats "crazy" people like garbage shuld be given some nasty dose of LSD or
Datura extract to remind them what are those people going trough.

I felt into most extreme state of depression I ever felt in last few days.
Even doing things that make me happy was painfull.
Only fate in God,MDMA,5-HTP and benzos keept me alive...

Depression has prety nasty characteristic that it makes you turly beliveve there is no alternative.
BPD is just depression + periods of mania.

I would rather "choose" DPB than depression alone.

why not use unconventional stimulants they all work the same way

I agree food causes a lot of both physical and mental problems as does the culture we live in.  I have a book called "Chemistry of Joy" that talks in simplistic terms about foods and their influence on each neurotransmitter system, it helped me 5 years ago when I needed to get off effexor and get rid of type II diabetes. 

 If you look at news media, entertainment, games it is all designed to create anxiety that can only be solved by buying and using their product.  Fox news in particular is good at creating unfounded anxieties which in turn wind up getting turned into laws.

The games and movies ramp up our adrenal systems and they in turn do a lot of damage to our brains and bodies.  It may well be that video games and violent movies that kids are hooked on from a young age are causing the symptoms of ADHD - not because they promote short attention span, but because of the affects of elevated glucocorticoids.  Stress of the fake kind is indistinguishable from the real thing for the most part, so our entertainment is activating HPA.  Elevated glucocorticoids is also tied to type II diabetes and can actually cause you to gain weight - no matter what you eat.

And I suspect that the intelligent and aware ones go crazy because you can't be paying attention to what's going on and not go crazy.

Salat

People didn't hear about every tom dick and harry that got tortured etc, they didn't have access to instant information.  I wasn't using it as a defense of anything it's just a theory of mine gleaned from research and experience.  There were studies which showed that chemically our bodies respond to imagined threats as well as real ones.  So kids playing violent video games are getting their flight or fight response going.  It doesn't even matter if the game is violent or not, it can still get the HPA going.  Movies can too.

I believe that when bad things happened to people pre modern society they had lots of physical labor to work off the chemicals circulating after that near brush with a rattle snake or whatever.  Now the kids just sit all the time and the chemicals which have ramped up to do battle have no where to go and don't get metabolized the way it was designed to.  So yeah we've been designed to live in a dangerous world, but we're fucking with things because we don't use our bodies the way they were designed.

And yeah food only helps so far.  Part of the problem of feeling hopeless is the sheer volume of problems we are presented with in a typical day of reading newspaper & tv etc (I don't do either).  We feel overwhelmed because they are so large in scope and even the small local ones can't be fixed or helped because of lawyers and their BS.

I found out our psych gets something like 86K a year in speakers fees from the drug companies.  I don't let them prescribe me anything unless I'm sure I want to take it and have checked it out carefully.  Don't trust any of them.

Salat