Do you think the term BIPOLAR is overused & misdiagnosed?!
Question: How in the HELL can EVERYONE with psychiatric problems be bipolar?
Oh, & how can a person be diagnosed with schizophrenia & bipolar @ the same time? Some of my siblings have that diagnosis. "My mom has a lot of us-9".
Answers: How in the HELL can EVERYONE with psychiatric problems be bipolar?
Oh, & how can a person be diagnosed with schizophrenia & bipolar @ the same time? Some of my siblings have that diagnosis. "My mom has a lot of us-9".
It does seem to be overused in recent years. It seems nowadays even simple moodiness is called "bipolar disorder". You can't be diagnosed with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia at the same time. The DSM-IV criteria for each illness excludes the other. There is an illness called "schizoaffective disorder" that includes significant symptoms of both schizophrenia and mood disorders.
Bipolar and schizophrenia are two very different things. Bipolar is a mood disorder, and schizophrenia is a loss of reality. They can occur together because they are not mutually exclusive.
I think that some people say they're bipolar when they have perfectly normal mood swings, or because they don't know the difference between bipolar and depression, and bipolar 'sounds better'.
But I think that people genuinely diagnosed with bipolar disorder really do have it - I am one of them, and it's pretty much ruined my life.
i do think that they both are used too much and no everyone doesnt have a problem its just america is so bent on everyone doing things there way and being a certain way they dnt understand hw controlling and critical they are becoming about certain things so i think u are right to say that they are used way too much.
no,i think many people have it that are not diagnosed with it
i think it's misunderstood, the brain is very complex.
i hate to admit it but kids today (including me) sometimes use it as joke.
i think people don't realize it is a laughing matter.
as for the misdiagnosed;
i think sometimes really moody people
(ones without an actual condition)
are diagnosed that way, when really it's just personality.