Bipolar disorder episode from not taking medication. Talking nonsense and acting weird?

Good question. I think it very much depends on the circumstances. In a lot of cases, it is better and more honest not to.

I know personally, I usually try to tell the truth, to the best of my ability. But in a RARE few cases, you'd actually be doing certain people a great disservice by telling them the truth, because it would completely mess them up! That's not a common situation, but it does still happen... Especially when people are very vulnerable, or they've got certain mental disorders, one might need to lie to them at times, just in order to protect them from themselves... I can think of two examples from my own life.

I know someone, (not a close friend of mine, but I do see her every once in a while), who is mentally disabled. She's got a very low IQ, a pronounced learning disability, plus at one point she used to be psychotic, and I'm pretty sure she's got body dysmorphic disorder. At some point, she spent a whole year not going out, because she was absolutely convinced she was the ugliest person in the world, and that everybody must hate her!

She's not really all that ugly. For the most part, she looks completely normal. But she's got a really ugly and misshapen nose, which sort of ruins her entire face... (At least in my opinion, anyway.) Strange thing is, she never had any sort of hang-up about her nose!

Just about other parts of her body... Now, if she had asked me: "so, what do you think of my nose, Cassie?", do you REALLY think it would have been defensible for me to say: "actually, your nose is really ugly, and it ruins your entire face."..? No, of COURSE not! That sh*t very well might have completely driven her over the edge! I once had this other friend, too.. I still love and care about her very much, but I feel like I'm more of a caretaker for her these days, whenever I do see her, because her mental health has deteriorated so much... This girl has got a very rare chromosome disorder, known as DiGeorge syndrome, which makes her far more vulnerable to psychosis than other people!

Plus she's also, more than likely, autistic, and has got a number of other issues.. Over the years that I've known her, she's only gotten more and more troubled! When I first met her, some four years ago, she used to be in a much better place mentally, and she was mostly functional and happy. And I didn't understand just how vulnerable she was.

So I told her lots of things that I probably shouldn't have told her.. Like for instance, I told her about my love of psychedelics. Which she had NEVER f*cking heard of, but she initially seemed to be 100% okay with. Then she was put under too much duress a few years ago, and she basically just snapped, and became psychotic overnight.

It was really f*cking painful to watch! And I tried to reach her, but I just couldn't... Then of course, being autistic, and having a very obsessive mindset, combined with her psychosis, she started freaking out about all sorts of things! Including, and especially, my drug use... It got to the point where she would think about it, and worry about it, every day!

Not in the same way as normal people worry, but in terms of seeing it absolutely EVERYWHERE, and thinking drug users had some kind of a secret code language, so that EVERY single conversation she was listening to automatically pertained to drugs in some way... She was scared sh*tless! So I lied to her, and told her I'd completely stopped doing drugs, which made it WAY easier for her to trust me, and also significantly reduced her level of paranoia... Can you REALLY say that was the wrong decision on my end, and that you wouldn't have done exactly the same thing? Life is not black-and-white.

This reality does not consist of absolutes. It is all situational! And something that might be a very good principle to follow in certain situations, just might be completely f*cking inadequate in other situations!

Including "don't lie to people"... Although I would say, in MOST situations, telling the truth is the best thing to do. Or if you have to lie, then at least make the lie as small and insignificant as you're able to! Right..? Considering how you are who you are, and this is R&S after all, I bet your question was supposed to be about religion and spirituality in specific.

But sue me... In terms of that, anyway, I feel like pointing out that most believers are NOT lying, because they actually do believe in what they say they believe! So that even if you don't agree with their perspective, they still aren't willfully, deliberately speaking untruthfully.. However: I wouldn't be surprised if certain overly greedy and cynical religious leaders, who are just in it for the money, might willfully be lying to their followers, and not actually believe in what they're preaching... In which case, that's f*cking repugnant and immoral! Because in that case, their lies do not serve to actually protect vulnerable people... It only serves to keep filling their already overfilled, morbidly obese, personal wallets!

Which I just can't get behind, no matter what.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.