From from what I have learned therapy really doesn't work that well for people with Bipolar Disorder and they pretty much have to take medication for it to calm their mania and their violent mood swings.
It's just like people with Schizopherenia they have to take the medication every day or else they don't get better. You can't fix their delusions and paranoid thinking without giving them medication.
And I WISH my medication would kill my sex drive. I feel horny all the damn time now.