Quote Originally Posted by Youngblood View Post
just a foot note to this thread,

There is such a vast difference between depression which so many experience, know and understand, to which you most certainly fit all the criteria for being familiar with miles, and bi polar, which is depression and sanity's evil counterpart, via gross psychosis often in the name of mania. They almost shouldn't even be discussed within the same parameters.
True, and having done a little googling in the past 24 hours I feel I am a lot more clued up. The OP was a bit of a rant with a spoonful of ignorance thrown in for good measure, but having gone through a few pages on here and doing the searching I realise that I was being a bit crass and somewhat unfair to the mentalists.

Like I say, I am quite content for everyone to have a mental problem now and for them to do whatever they think is right to deal with it. I have liberalised on this issue.