It's Wild Prediction Time Again

As you know, a bipolar man was shot and killed by federal air marshalls in Miami today. Most accounts confirm that he was bipolar, so I'll take that as fact. News accounts also state that he went running off the plane in a deranged state, allegedly claiming he had a bomb. His wife followed saying that her husband was bipolar and hadn't taken his medication. The air marshalls blew him away when he refused to give up his bag, which he wore across his front, allegedly.

If this poor soul was truly bipolar, then I am sure that what will eventually come off is that he was off-meds, likely altogether or had been taking them intermittently. Probably years of struggle with trying to make treatment work, and bouncing back and forth between being treatment compliant--meaning meds, therapy, anything--and non-compliant. Sad shit. He likely didn't have to die in such a fashion. A wife didn't have to lose her husband. And the cops wouldn't have had to plug a fairly innocent creature.

Moral: take your meds. Find the right ones. Take them all the time. If you have very severe bipolar disorder, then be self-aware and know when you are getting psychotic and knock that shit down with an atypical antipsychotic. Be responsible for your own life. It will help the lives of others around you. And your own.

And for god's sake when the cops say "halt," then stop. Don't be a dumbass.