I have a diagnosed mental illness.

[truedelphi]

200. My sympathy to you for

The energy required of you and for your enduring the lack of societal support you encounter with your son's medical problem.

Here is a link to a post over at DailyKos, and this person's efforts telling the story on the internets then resulted in having a Rolling Stone reporter involved:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/03/1266817/-Cops-Who-Entrapped-Our-Autistic-Son-Entrap-and-Arrest-Disabled-Kid-for-3-Vicodin-Pill

BTW, those of us who no longer eat wheat end up being educated, by all the books relatives send us, as to how often an allergen such as wheat takes over the life of someone like your son. Such an allergy exacerbates if not actually causing the bi polar syndrome. Wheat grown in the USA now has such a high formaldehyde concentration, as almost all wheat is heavily sprayed with RoundUp. Such RoundUp sprayed wheat is also contaminated with fungal growths and molds.

If you can switch your son to a non gluten diet (Which also means no "regular" soy sauce" no dextrose, and usually very few bottled canned or food in boxes) it might make a difference. By getting away from prepared foods, you also eliminate MSG, which is now in about 90% of all prepared foods. MSG causes massive depression and can also make people bi polar worse.

If your child still lives in home, that is one route to look into. And often the "allergy tests" done by medical professionals use a high grade, non-RoundUp sprayed wheat, so a person can be told that wheat is not a problem for them. (If the person truly suffers from celiac disease, they will perhaps find out through medical testing.) But if formaldehyde, mold and fungal materials set the individual off, they won't find that out from being tested in a medical office.

My husband saw what an increase in my energy came about from my being sensitive to America's new wheat, and going all "No on wheat!". And although he didn't really have the sensitivity I have, he was so impressed that he embraced a non-wheat diet within 14 days of my being on it. We now have awesome recipes for brownies, bread, pizza dough etc. And we both can occasionally have sour dough bread, which is usually of a higher quality and lacks the pervasive gluten found in normal bread.