> "Mad in America" is obviously not willing to make a fuss of things like bipolar where people will take their lithium for decades and bear the side-effects [...]
The creation and promotion of "Bipolar" as a DSM disorder is covered in Anatomy of an Epidemic, Robert Whitaker's followup to Mad in America.
> [...] because the alternative is to go actually mad-crazy.
The whole point of Whitaker's Mad in America foundation is to change the paradigm of our approach to mental health. nstead of trying to find the right drug to make a symptom go away, it would be much more effective to figure out non-psychotropic-drug ways to help people function better.