The Unknown Manic Author:John Henry Morel, John Henry Morel In John Henry Morel's "The Unknown Manic," it is easy to understand how quickly manic bi-polar disorders can get out of hand. He explains that bi-polar treatment depends as heavily on self analysis, compromise and compassion as it does medical assistance, and less of the latter. In the compassionate treatment of bi-polar disorders, it is made ... more »clear that the patient has more at stake than their liberties, but additionally they have their dignity to consider as well as their physical and spiritual health to consider. And since no two disorders are alike, the common thread among all of us lies in the fact that we are human beings first and diagnosed later, and as well, we are constituents of a greater prognosis that once we have made the choice to follow a prescription from the doctor, who treats the patient's real illness from either abuse, alcohol, lack of education, disrespect, neglect or simply lack of spiritual focus? It is made clear that we are responsible for our actions even after we have been diagnosed with these classes of depressive disorders, and even so, who treats the patient after being read his last rights by the doctor who so willfully prescribes a medication that is supposed to root out the evil from where it originated? How do we outclass a class of drugs that inebriates the patient, and most of society for that matter, and bring about a greater healing and thereabout a greater understanding of an over generalized and over-specified misdirection in medicine to compensate for the lack of pocketbooks in the drug manufacturer's sector of business gains? It is clear from reading "The Unknown Manic," that we are doing just that: Simultaneously rewarding ourselves for our obsolescence in a community that no longer recognizes our necessity for meaning in life and overemphasizes our direct extension of funds to either external gratification or the quick fix, in order to "get on" with our lives as "normal" people. The book refuses to equate medicine with solution and further begs the question of, "What happened to therapy?" especially in a society of fastfood addictions, eating disorders, complaint rock and drug binging for fun. We often hear on the radio how often our children are shot in the streets for pure sport, how our politicians didn't know what they were doing when they slipped money under the door, or their foot for that matter, and how we are running out of money to pay for health care and education. One wonders where all the money is going in the first place: If you look at advertising, most of the money is going to advertising for drug companies, at least statistically speaking, and then you have to wonder why we can't afford to put our kids through college, and that begs another question. Who do you think keeps our kids coming back for more?« less