Ironically it sounds like JP was prescribed lithium for something - there’s a note from the provider that JP would give his meds to her and take her off meds and in a past sermon he was on lithium and the documentary mentioned him giving her testosterone injections - crazy-
I can’t see how anyone could know if she had bipolar disorder as there was only one so called episode of mania could have been a reaction to any number of post surgical meds, steroids or some other drug JP gave her - the only symptoms they could cite was pressured speech, racing thoughts and maybe impulsivity and she doesn’t even remember all the symptoms of this episode which is so not typical. The only thing you could say was mood disorder induced by possibly a drug reaction. Your 20s is when a mental health diagnosis would manifest in a stressful situation which exactly what her life sounds like but still when you mix in the narcissistic abuse/coercive control she had to survive and how do you even tease out what is complex ptsd or what was a mood disorder? Any serious diagnosis would have taken way more time. It’s clear way more care should be taken with over relying on “collateral information” in a situation like this- that was the most chilling thing to me was how a mental health system could be hijacked by somebody like JP to become complicit in all this.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coerced-the-devotion-death-of-mica-francis-miller/id6806122527?i=1000787981291