It sounds like the problem here has more to do with irresponsible diagnosis (which most of us would agree is a serious problem regarding mental illness) than th

It sounds like the problem here has more to do with irresponsible diagnosis (which most of us would agree is a serious problem regarding mental illness) than the drugs themselves. If someone has a manic reaction to antidepressants, the response should not be to diagnose them as having bipolar disorder, and then treat them as if it were the case, because it's unlikely that the person in innately/biochemically bipolar. It's to try a different drug. I'm not bipolar, and I've had a manic (or, much more likely, hypomanic) reaction to a vitamin (when I stopped using it, I was fine, but had done a few really moronic things up to that point). It happens, and aggressive diagnosis is not the solution.