This Is The Kind Of Attention Bipolars Don't Need

So Florida school teacher Debra LaFave had sexual misconduct charges dropped against her yesterday. She was charged with having sex with a minor-aged male student of hers. I am not completely clear why the charges were dropped by the judge (press accounts vary on this), but what is clear is that she was going to mount an insanity defense based on being bipolar. Her lawyer came out and said as much on "Good Morning America" today.

So now we are going to have half of America rolling around thinking that bipolar disorder turns people into sexual deviants, for lack of a better term. Great, fucking great. When do we actually get some decent publicity for bipolars? Why is it always about someone committing a crime? Why is it never about someone living a fairly normal life?

Hell, I am as bipolar as the day is long and I am going to go into the office, work my ass off until 6 p.m., and then go home. But it's never about that reality, now is it?