medication is GOOD for you hollywood!!!

as someone that is bi-polar and medicated for decades, i get rather tired of his whole "drugs are bad" "drugs will make me stupid" garbage. there is simply no denying the overwhelming success of the pharmaceutical revolution, esp in treatment of mental health disorders. but hollywood writers would have you believe that we're still giving everyone lithium and shock treatment (to be fair, we totally still do both of those, but it still isn't like what they portray in the movies).

shows like this continue the stigma of those that have mental health issues. shows like this encourage people to not seek treatment or medication, because they should just "tough it out." and people that have sought treatment, are medicated, and are essentially cured the same way a diabetic that takes insulin is are forced to hide in the shadows because hollwyood and the media has made it seem like all of us are just one bad day away from gunning everyone down.

if you want to know about what group it's socially acceptable to bash, it's not the gays or the muslims, it's people with mental health issues. we're either faking it, or just having a bad day because "everyone gets depressed get over it," or they think we'll snap at any minute - AND if we are on medications, shockingly, people actually manage to beleive that the medication makes even more dangerous.

this show had the perfect opportunity to do something good, and instead they went the with tired hollywood cliche of in order to be a genius you must have some sort of tortured soul and difficultly dealing with people, with a dash of medications will make you dumber because the spark of genius is so easily put out


my online writing style is one of speed and apathy, NOT ignorance