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So what happened before these medications became available?

 

Lobotomies and forced sterilization. Greater incidence of religious/cult leaders if you go back further. That thing Catholics do when they think someone is possessed by demons.

 

Tommy Morrison.

 

Some of them simply kept it in check by drinking heavily, or painting trees.

 

The great Forum Demi-God champion Cleveland Williams had mental issues, he attacked his girlfriend with a cleaver and during road work skipped off to the police station to get it back.

 

They’re dead in no time.

 

They are just us in a different circumstance, I pity all of them. Cleveland, Liston, Machen, and Patterson all suffered varying degrees of internal agony so full of substance it surfaced instead of being pushed deep within the soul. Patterson was a man who once said he felt the most love and warmth in his life being laid flat on his back. Taking it at surface meaning is sad, reading deeper opens the heart even more. side note, I know nothing of Folley.

 

Some.

 

No, many found ways to cope with it indefinitely.

 

Wow! You really don’t know bipolar do you?

You cannot ‘cope’ with genuinely believing you’re Jesus Christ, partying every night (and all day, even in supermarkets) and never sleeping. It’s impossible. You utter pillock. You can’t change your fkn brain chemistry when it’s imbalanced (without meds).

 

All. None would last long.

 

Otherwise they simply don’t have bipolar.

 

That's foolish to assume. Have ye little faith in the soul?

 

It’s physically impossible.

 

What? Please do explain. I am not an expert but this sounds wrong. You seem like a smart guy so I am open to hear what you have to say.