Yeah for sure. Just wanted to lay out for other passerby's in the thread that there's nothing forcing people to take medication that they don't think is benefic

Yeah for sure. Just wanted to lay out for other passerby's in the thread that there's nothing forcing people to take medication that they don't think is beneficial for them, or for people who've never seen someone in a frank manic episode that we're unnecessarily medicating all of the next DaVinci's or Einsteins. Great and thought provoking example. I think you could argue there could be some genetic susceptibility to having a manic episode when placed under stressors like that, meaning potentially there's a relative with bipolar disorder or pretty severe major depressive disorder. I don't think most people would fall into a manic episode when placed in situations like that, but it is impossible to know. In my time rotating in the psych emergency department I saw someone with a similar presentation to Ola. No psychiatric history, stressful event happened, didn't sleep for a few days, came in in frank psychosis, treated with Seroquel, left the next day totally fine. Diagnosis given was brief reactive psychosis. Maybe the same happened for Ola Wong.