Cool story bro.

"Depression goes beyond just sadness." Okay--to what? Super-sadness? Ultra-sadness?

Crippling self-loathing and ennui, resulting in a person preferring sleep/not feeling to being.

For mania, it's grandiosity, lack of inhibition, and risk taking behavior with life-altering consequences.

Not the 'happy-sads.' You glib fuck.

You're swirling your arms over a cauldron pretending your mystic incantations are creating insight out of bullshit.

My man. You're the one peddling bullshit and trying to incant away my mother's diagnosis, and my lived experience and trauma dealing with it. Good fucking luck.

If you like being caught in this escalation...

LIke or dislike doesn't change reality. And yeah. Psychiatry alone can't fix what's really wrong here. The pills don't do shit when the person taking them threatens to go off them to 'punish' the people around her, and it becomes an easter-egg hunt of finding pill stashes. Therapy can work-- if the person is willing to change. If not... welp.

But tell me you don't know shit about mental illness, without telling me you don't know shit about mental illness, why don't you?

Cool story bro.