Bipolar Disorder Support Group
Bipolar disorder is not just a single disorder, but a category of mood disorders marked by periods of abnormally high energy and euphoria, often accompanied by bouts of clinical depression. This is the place to talk about your experience with bipolar disorder, learn from others' experiences, and find support.

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as i my self suffer from BP i know that it effects your daily living and your judgement. but can everything you do be blamed on BP. we burried my brother today. he was murdered the 25th by a man who claims to be BP and was off his meds. maby its me maby my emotions but BP or not i feel he should be prosecuted to the fullest. not get off because he was off his meds. im sry if i offend any one here. but BP is a disease, although not cureable, managable. and some things like murder should not be blamed on a disease that one can controll to an extent with meds.
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But as beepers we still have choices. We can seek help, we can take our meds, we can stillbe people rather than BP with an excuse to mess things up.
Murder is not excusable just because you dont take your meds. I am more of a danger to myself than I am to anyone else. Beepers or not I still know right from wrong.
BP cannot be an excuse for murder, - in built in all of us are morals, part of our genetic code, some dont know finer points,or never been taught-but everybody knows even if is by way of TV - murder is wrong.
BP sufferers are probably more moralistic than most!
Bad people do bad things..BP is irrelivent..
I am so deeply sorry for your loss!!!
BP can be the cause of many horrible things, perhaps even murder, but if and when it does lead to something that extreme, it cannot be used as an excuse.
Where I live, a woman recently went on trial for murder. (I can't remember exactly what degree of murder.) She wanted to commit suicide and tried to do so by driving her vehicle into another vehicle which had 3 people in it. She lived; they didn't. She has since been diagnosed as BP, whether because she really is or as a ploy by the defense lawyer, I don't know. But even if she is and even if that's what made her do it, I think she must be held responsible for her actions.
It's very sad if someone did something horrible through no direct fault of their own, but society has a greater right to be protected from such actions. Sometimes, life is not fair. As you know all too well.
BP as an excuse...no way...But, Since the bp person was not medicated, was he in a severely psychotic state? Unless he was over the top psychotic, he would still have enough connection with reality to know right from wrong.
Truth is, even genuine cases of truly psychotic crimes, seldom get off on an insanity defense. They make it look otherwise on tv, but in real life, it doesn't hapen often at all.
I believe in punishing for the crime regardless of mental illness, but punish the mentally ill in a forensic psych unit so they will get the needed medical and psychiatric/psychological help.
My answer is much like others. This guy knew he had BP and knew he was supoosed to be on medication. He made a choice to disregard both of those facts and it resulted in the tragic death of your brother.
If I choose to drink booze, get drunk, then knowingly go out and drive my car and kill someone I would expect to be held accountable.
There is no difference here.
I do not however thnk this raises to 1st degree murder as they must prove he had forsight, planning and intention to prove 1st degree murder. Being BP and off his medication it can not be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that this is the case any more than you could porve a drunk driver who kills someone intended to do it.