Two points.

1. I’m bipolar and don’t like this slippery slope one bit.

2. I’m bipolar with no health insurance. What’s this magical “help” thing that people are saying there people should get? Where does it come form? Does it rain from the sky? The newer antipsychotics that don’t have side effects just as debilitating as the original condition cost $600 a month or more.

I, want, need and have been begging for more help than I’ve been getting for years. There’s none there. As is I pay about 25% of my annual income for the minimum medication required to remain a functional member of society. If I were to go off it I would never be able to do the work required to pay to get back on it.

I laugh at the idea of involuntary commitment. On whose dime? As it is they can’t even afford to give free medication to people on an outpatient basis unless they are so sick they are on disability and have given up on trying to be functional members of society.