Hi
Last night on Private Practice's season finale a mentally ill patient that we've seen before is off her meds. Even though no one on the show says that the patient has bipolar, the audience knows it is bipolar because the writers drop a few hints.

The problem for me is that it is not really bipolar.
It has one or two things that might be bipolar.

Then the patient does something horrible and very frightening that is not remotely bipolar.

I'm going to send a letter to the producers.

I'm mad.
If they are going to portray bipolar, they could get most of it right -- try for 75% maybe.
There are plenty of horrible things about bipolar.

They did not need to completely break from any plane of reality.


M.