People should refrain from talking about bipolar disorder or schizophrenia until they actually know what the disorders are all about. Note that the vast majority of people don't have a clue about either illness. This includes most of the commenters on this article. Also, jokes about the mentally ill fall, in most jurisdictions, under the same category as sexist or racist jokes.
On the article, this is pretty interesting. The more insight into these poorly understood disorders, the better. Especially since so many current anti-psychotics' side effects are so crippling on their own.