Bizi,
I have depression and, thanks to the meds, huge brain fog.
You seem to need to have concern about mania.

Maybe mania and its dangers are hard for non-bipolars to understand.
...whereas depression is something they can udnerstand because sometimes regular people get small tastes of it.

Most regular people don't get tastes of mania. And if they do, they don't experience it as dangerous -- leadiing ever upwards toward destruction and crashing back.....


(sorry if I am being too poetic).

I think that most people are teachable.
Maybe type up a one page sheet for him with bullets.
Or make a chart.
Or ask him to write a song.

OK.
I'm thinking aloud here. I'm going to go to bed.

I hope you find ways to make progress.
mari