No, LSD doesn't cure bipolar disorder. I have bipolar disorder. I have taken LSD. It didn't cure me. I have met other bipolar people in treatment. A lot of

No, LSD doesn't cure bipolar disorder. I have bipolar disorder. I have taken LSD. It didn't cure me. I have met other bipolar people in treatment. A lot of them have taken LSD, some of them in huge amounts (e.g. while manic, when "no" is temporarily removed from your vocabulary) and as far as I can tell, the ones who have taken the most acid have the worst problems: more frequent cycling, higher highs, lower lows, more agitated depression (very bad because it can cause suicide), and more frequent loss of contact with reality. And the article is pretty insensitive about bipolar disorder in general. It says literally nothing about what it's like to have it, or how to cope with it, or that you can lead a relatively normal life in spite of it. It certainly says nothing about the good parts to having bipolar disorder, that the disease imparts certain talents, and that some bipolar people would opt not to cure themselves if they had the choice. In the article bipolar disorder is just this generic bad thing that sets the stage for the healing power of acid. Frankly, my life, and the lives of the other people I've met, are just a lot more interesting than that.