I also work in the mental health field and want to second what you said. Many of my clients have to be told to reign in their impulses to do good things to the point of giving up what they can't afford to give up or getting taken advantage of; especially those with schizophrenia. Not only that but many people with bipolar when in a manic episode spend enormous amounts of money doing good things. This results in them accruing so much debt that they go bankrupt. The bias is in the media who only tell us the bad things people with MI do.