[Moneyguy1]

I have mentioned itbefore. For years I was married to a bipolar individual. (She has passed away...brain aneurism). When I think back to that time in my life, I still shudder. Psychotherapy was her treatment of choice, along with (the only one I remember) lithium and some other meds. (four therapists....one committed suicide later on, one was jailed for prescribing psychotropic drugs to himself, one was a recovering alcoholic....)This was twenty years ago and I am sure things have improved over the ensuing years, but the damage done to the kids is still visible. I look at medicines, properly administered and used as extremely valuable adjuncts to making life better. If an individual has, for example, hypertension, it is not "macho" to tough it out. The medication can prevent serious conditions from cropping up and enable the individual to lead a normal life. If we take meds for physical ailments and they help, why is there, to so many people, some kind of bad connotation with drugs that help those with emotional problems?