Can you fight bipolar disorder without medication?
The danger is that if you don’t take those medications, then you will start “self-medicate” using things like caffeine, sleeping pills, alcohol, or smoking. The way I think about it is that the stuff my doctor gives me is not that much different from drinking a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, and alcohol or a cigarette is a thousand times more dangerous and addictive than any medication used to treat BPD.