Maybe the medication cleared away the cobwebs in Danny’s head, giving him a clarity and insight that he couldn’t have before. Danny went into great detail in his letter about what it was like for him to have bipolar illness and how people need to understand that it is a sickness, not a choice. “Only love and understanding can conquer this disease,” he wrote. The more I thought about this, the more I began to worry. The tone was off. This seemed to me to be too drastic of a change in attitude. All this talk about sinfulness was making me nervous. There was a kind of finality to the way Danny
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