This is such a defeatist attitude.

I'm bipolar I, and I take lithium for it. Being confronted with my actions over and over and over and over again was a big part of what got me to start taking meds.

The over and over is important. A lot of people do get the hint eventually. It's hardly as simple as showing a video.

True. Fair enough.

What kind of lithium do you take? I have heard that the prescribed doses can be pretty sedating or brutal but there are also people advocating for very tiny doses of lithium in a different form that is similar to what is found in some natural wells. Could be completely pseudoscience but it seemed interesting

Lithium carb pills, at the lower end of the standard therapeutic range. There are a range of side effects, luckily for me not severe enough to impact my day to day--the most noticable one is just being thirsty all the time. We'll see if that stays true as I age, though... kidney damage is a big risk down the road.

And yup, there's some newer research about the long term benefits such as lowering alzheimer's risk, which is a nice silver lining :) My doctors have mentioned it, so probably not pseudoscience.

They are not talking about the patients. Bipolar ppl are neurodivergent

I took their comment as "nt people don't usually change so why would you expect nd people to?" and I wanted to point out that nd people can indeed change, regardless of whether nt people can.

>neurotypical

You mean the opposite of that?

No, I meant neurotypical. I guess I could have said "normal" or "average". It's also culturally dependent, so maybe I should have just said Americans.