Isn't it getting tiresome how everybody is being diagnosed as bipolar?!
Question: Isn't it getting tiresome how everybody is being diagnosed as bipolar!?
Dumb!. How did humanity exist for thousands of years before they discovered bipolar and the pills!. BS charlatans convinced they have the cureWww@Answer-Health@Com
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I think more and more terms are used nowadays to describe certian behaviour e!.g!. down in the morning and afternoon but real high at night (keep calling friends in A!.M!.), can't control roller coaster kind of emotions in a day!. (If I don't used the term "bipolar" , I have to write so many stuff above)!.!.!.no cure to all mental illness (my shrink said),!.!.!.the only way is to alleviate (lower!?!?) the severity of symptoms, improve people's lives!. That's all!.!. Www@Answer-Health@Com
Manic depression is one of the oldest illnesses!. First, mention in the second century!. In 1650 a scientist named Richard Burton's wrote a book, The Anatomy of Melancholia!. His research is still used today!. In 1854 Jules Falrat coined the term "folie circulaire", (circular insanity), and established a link between depression and suicide!. His work led to the term bipolar disorder!. He recognized the link between depression and mood changes!. He also realized the disorder reoccurred in families!. Thus, a genetic link!.
I was diagnosed a the age of 32 as bipolar!. I am 53 now!. They don't promise a cure!. There is no cure!. I have been off my meds since January!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
I was diagnosed a the age of 32 as bipolar!. I am 53 now!. They don't promise a cure!. There is no cure!. I have been off my meds since January!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Bipolar disorder aka manic depression has been known and treated (with lithium) since ancient rome!.
There are current studies using MRIs that are able to show a difference in areas of brain structure and functioning in bipolars when compared to non-bipolars!. Other studies are showing common dna markers in bipolars not found in non-bipolars, but as of yet it isn't certain which ones contribute to which symptoms!.
Similar studies are finding differences among schizophrenics and diabetics!. Few people ridicule the idea that diabetes is 'just a fad label'!.
As for the DSM, the same can be said for any science manual - until you can build the equipment to physically test a hypothesis, you have only the concenous of the leaders in the feild to agree that something exists!. Consider how many theories have been proven since the developement of the electron microscope!.
It's unfortunate, but even after proof is established through medical technology, there will still be those who deny it because the stigma of mental illness remains due to other people's fear of what they don't really understand!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
There are current studies using MRIs that are able to show a difference in areas of brain structure and functioning in bipolars when compared to non-bipolars!. Other studies are showing common dna markers in bipolars not found in non-bipolars, but as of yet it isn't certain which ones contribute to which symptoms!.
Similar studies are finding differences among schizophrenics and diabetics!. Few people ridicule the idea that diabetes is 'just a fad label'!.
As for the DSM, the same can be said for any science manual - until you can build the equipment to physically test a hypothesis, you have only the concenous of the leaders in the feild to agree that something exists!. Consider how many theories have been proven since the developement of the electron microscope!.
It's unfortunate, but even after proof is established through medical technology, there will still be those who deny it because the stigma of mental illness remains due to other people's fear of what they don't really understand!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
I agree with you!. The word "bipolar" is simply a label used to categorise a list of psychosocial traits that Psychiatry considers to be improper or abnormal in society!. Psychiatry defines these traits as a "mental illness", and promotes it as a "disease" that requires "treatment"!.
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