Load of manure and highly dangerous for this dude to be spreading such misinformation. Bipolar and Schizophrenia are lifelong disorders that can be helped with medication and therapy but never cured.

How is it misinformation exactly? Who says it's a lifelong disorder that can be helped with medications and therapy but never cured?

Please back up your claims and actually watch the video all the way through before calling it "manure" and "highly dangerous".

PS I said open minded people, not close minded.

No thank you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHs8LxPepKU

oh yeah I recognized the voice from a few years ago. This guy has been making videos since then..spiritual emergency etc...I didn't listen to the whole thing as I didn't get into it the first time I heard it a few years ago but I see that this must be a new one

Whatever floats your boat I suppose. If it helps him he's probably just trying to help others...that or trying to sell a book (maybe trying to sell knowing this society...snake oil stuff).

Spiritually?...I have used that but I think it's personal like religion. No-one can tell you you have to work it out on your own.

I watched the whole thing. It's crap. I watched some of his other stuff too. He is suggesting our illness is not real. Is he a scientologist? Are you? No wanna be quack will ever convince me that Bipolar can be cured. I never was abused. I've had no severe traumas at a young age and I am Bipolar. Mental illness runs on both sides of my family. Sorry dude. It's dangerous crap.

guess i'm just a loser who wants to believe what my doctors tell me. i'm sure this psych ward is just an illusion too.

its all just my choice, right? guess i just choose to be a loser.

thanks - now i'm more depressed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr5uPhMIUuE

The point is that it only been labelled an illness in the past 60 years, before then people had these experiences all the time and went on to live fully functioning lives - without medications or hospitalisations.

It's the way each of us treats these experiences (regardless of what they are) which is the problem, because we don't care to learn about them. We remain scared, or passive or ignorant.

SamWinchester - Have you even looked into the Soteria project? For over 12 years people were taken in and helped overcome Schizophrenia and Bipolar related issues, without medications. They got the same, if not better, results as compared to Psychiatric hospitals. That's a fact.

As for your trauma - what do you think growing up with someone who is bi-polar is like? It's far from clear sailing, and just because you say you have had little trauma, we all experience it in different ways. You may not consider your trauma, trauma at all. Just life experience.

Otterdeer, ignore the BS put before you. What we have is real and treatable, through therapy and medication. There will always be those anti-psychiatry ignoramuses who refuse to believe mental illness exists at all. They need a shrink more than we do. Peace and hugs to you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28jGfk-HK_M

Dude, I had a normal childhood. Neither parent is mentally ill. I said it runs on both sides of my family. Normal full lives before BP was recognized, huh? That's why Vincent Van Gogh, a fellow beeper, cut off his ear and eventually killed himself. Believe the lies if you want. It's your life.

Lee, I am not sure what you are seeking here. If you truely believe in what this man teaches and believes himself, why would you want discussion from us? Are you here to discuss or try to persuade us to believe also? I would think "discussion" would be best on the blog and forums of those who believe as you do.....

Clearly people who choose to believe totally in Psychiatry will do, just like a religion or cult - you can't talk to the initiated without being seen as an enemy.

There's no such thing as normal. Bi-polar as a genetic disease is only theory, not proven fact.

in the words of Pere Ubu: "don't need a cure/ i need a Final Solution"

gimme a gun!