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~ winning battle movie |
A top hot shot lawyer who wins almost all his cases gets diagnosed with bipolar. After he is diagnosed he is put on medication and sees a psychiatrist. He starts losing his cases really badly and his reputation as a top lawyer is no longer.
When visiting his psychaitrist he explains that he feels much better on the medication and is in a neutral mood all the time, which feels great. He does not have any swinging lows and highs like before. But he cannot pinpoint what exactly is causing him to lose his court cases and has done a 90 degree swing from being one of the top lawyers, to a total loser.
The psychiatrist explains to the lawyer that it is quite usual for people diagnosed with bipolar to go through a stage of accepting the illness in the early stages, which is very hard on the person, and the psychiatrist strongly believes this is the major reason the lawyer is losing his cases. The lawyer accepts this advice, but he continues to lose cases.
The lawyer asks himself "what has changed? I always kind of knew I had some kind of illness with mood swings, but just did not know what the label was for it." So he feels that accepting the illness cannot be the reason he is losing, although maybe it is, but he has a hunch something else is going on. He figures there must be something that changes his ways in court: maybe his bipolar somehow helps him. He then immediately theorizes, while pacing in his office, that he has to try going off his medication for a few days before and during a court case, to see if this changes the court battle results. The first time he tries this, he wins the case smoothly.. But this cannot be rigorous evidence as it is only one test, not multiple. He goes back on his meds immediately if there are no court cases scheduled, and stays on his medications until about five days befor a court case. He does not tell his psychiatrist because his psychiatrist has told him not to go off his medications, and that it is mandatory he stays on them at all times, or he risks going into a manic state. The lawyer openly welcomes a manic state on court day, as that is what helps him completely own the court room like a king.
Luckily, the medications do not affect the lawyer's ability to study, research, prepare, and strategize for the court case - or at least not significantly - it just affects his ability to battle the court case in the court room itself, so he does stay on the medication consistently, when he is not in the court room.
One day he takes his medication, swallowing the pill whole, with a glass of water. Shortly after, he gets a phone call. On the phone it is explained to him that a court case 12 days away, has been rescheduled to two days away. He tries to have the court case rescheduled further into the future, as he needs time to be off his medications for 5 days, but the court case has to go forward in two days. Immediately after ending the phone call he runs to the bathroom, sticks his finger down his throat, and induces vommiting to try to puke up the medication he just swallowed shortly before the phone call. In the sink, he finds the remains of most of the white pill, and says "oh thank God, I think that is most of the pill, I might just be okay for court day, but I won't be at my absolute best since I have not been off the medications for a full five days".
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