Good morning, everybody. Hope you being well. Some great questions from Facebook. Can bipolar be fixed

with personal agency and responsibility? Now, I of course, no doctor, I know doctor with degree,

no psychologist, no psychiatrist, just amateur nonsense opinion, but I don't think that the

biochemical basis of some mental illnesses have really been strictly determined.

So I would look at, and I did a whole show on mental illness,

theories of mental illness in the past, you can find it at FDRpodcast.com. But in general,

what I would say is that our brain is there to process reason, facts, reality, and the

empirical evidence of our senses. And the world is objective and predictable and rational, like the material world is objective,

empirical, predictable, rational, consistent, and therefore we are aligned with the purpose of our brains

exactly and specifically to the degree that our brains follow the principles of material reality.

Do we accept the evidence of our senses? Do we accept the need for reason? Do we accept

empiricism? Are we willing to overthrow theory in the face of actual evidence? Are we willing to

be corrected by the facts of reality and the strictness of reason? If that is the case, we have the greatest capacity for

mental health, right? The body has particular purposes, and if we follow that which is best

for the body, that which is the body is designed for, we are most likely to have physical health.

Of course, there can be bad luck

exceptions. And it's the same thing with the mind. The purpose of the mind is to process

and extract principles from the sense data that comes into us from objective, empirical,

universal, rational, predictable, and consistent reality. So we found our beliefs on reason. We

accept the evidence of the senses, and we discipline our minds to follow the strictness,

because we have imagination, which is a good thing. We can deny immediate empirical reason.

In fact, we do it every night in our dreams. So we have the capacity for imagination, which is wonderful. Animals in a sense

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