Sebastian Junger

Oh, I don't know.

You're emotionally flat.

You put on weight, you know, all kinds of stuff.

All kinds of stuff that's better than suicide.

But, you know, it's not good.

And, you know, bipolar, you know, it destroys relationships.

I mean it's like it really – it's a very, very tough deal.

And often the result of trauma, right?

I mean in both cases of these people that I care about, they were traumatized as children, you know.

And so it often produces that terrible behavior that then just fulfills itself your whole life.

It's absolutely tragic.

They just have it.

There's some neurochemical stuff, yeah.

But trauma is a known correlate to bipolar as an adult.

And are you an honest reporter on your own experience?

So if you're telling your shrink about the fight you had with your wife the other night, are you really being an honest – Right.

that they have a very hard time saying, yeah, my wife's mad at me, but on the other hand, I was kind of a dick.

Right.

They can't do that.

It's all sort of victim-centered.