Has anyone here been diagnosed with bipolar disorder?

[tcsenter]

Please don't try to self medicate by getting drunk all the time. We have evidence here that it does not work.

Lies, all lies.

 

[Pliablemoose]

Had a bipolar GF as a live in, wooohoo, what a roller coaster. Greatest sex I ever had, and I got to almost shoot her a few months later when she and her ex husband and her new husband tried to rob me...

She was rapid cycling, whatever the heck that is...

 

[gaidensensei]

She was rapid cycling, whatever the heck that is...

Think that's the kind of thing that can make someone with bipolar shoot up like 100 posts on the forums in a hour or two. Saw it on another forum, it was mentioned that she went into 'rapid cycling' mode until it died down and people would have to steer away or they'd have to clean her forum mess.

A lot of the stuff became illogical and misspelled posts.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

There is no such thing as bi-polar spectrum illness. It's a catchall reason to give someone $600 a bottle pills.

http://health.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978201324

http://www.pharmalot.com/2009/11/abbott-labs-probed-over-depakote-marketing

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2009/01/15/lilly-settles-zyprexa-lawsuit-for-142-billion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_disorder

Just cursory reading about this makes one's bullshit detectors fire on all cylinders.

 

[KeithTalent]

There is no such thing as bi-polar spectrum illness. It's a catchall reason to give someone $600 a bottle pills.

http://health.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978201324

http://www.pharmalot.com/2009/11/abbott-labs-probed-over-depakote-marketing

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2009/01/15/lilly-settles-zyprexa-lawsuit-for-142-billion

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_disorder

Just cursory reading about this makes one's bullshit detectors fire on all cylinders.

I don't give a shit how much the pills cost; if they (along with other help) are allowing my friend to stop spending herself into oblivion, destroying all of her personal relationships, and making pretty much nothing but irrational, harmful decisions, then bring it on. Of course those pills do not cost anywhere near that much up here, but regardless, it would not matter if they did.

KT

 

[SphinxnihpS]

I don't give a shit how much the pills cost; if they (along with other help) are allowing my friend to stop spending herself into oblivion, destroying all of her personal relationships, and making pretty much nothing but irrational, harmful decisions, then bring it on. Of course those pills do not cost anywhere near that much up here, but regardless, it would not matter if they did.

KT

Let me know how she's doing in a few years...

 

[KeithTalent]

Let me know how she's doing in a few years...

5+ years in and she is doing extremely well; she would have likely been homeless or dead without it.

KT

 

[tcsenter]

I don't give a shit how much the pills cost; if they (along with other help) are allowing my friend to stop spending herself into oblivion, destroying all of her personal relationships, and making pretty much nothing but irrational, harmful decisions, then bring it on. Of course those pills do not cost anywhere near that much up here, but regardless, it would not matter if they did.

None of the links he cites could even be reasonably read to imply there is no credibility to bipolar disorder. The first three are news snippets about drug manufacturers getting into trouble for marketing drugs for unapproved and off-label uses.

Saying this is any evidence that bipolar disorder doesn't exist is like saying that Alzheimer's and dementia don't exist because Cephalon got slapped with a huge fine for marketing its narcolepsy drug Modafinil for these off-label or unapproved uses.

Or that CRPS is a made-up mental disorder because Ketamine has either cured CRPS or has shown to be effective in managing it in some people, in spite of it still being experimental and having never been approved for this use.

Many many drugs have proven to be either as effective or even more effective in treating conditions or disorders other than those the drug was developed or initially marketed.

 

[Whisper]

None of the links he cites could even be reasonably read to imply there is no credibility to bipolar disorder. The first three are news snippets about drug manufacturers getting into trouble for marketing drugs for unapproved and off-label uses.

Saying this is any evidence that bipolar disorder doesn't exist is like saying that Alzheimer's and dementia don't exist because Cephalon got slapped with a huge fine for marketing its narcolepsy drug Modafinil for these off-label or unapproved uses.

Or that CRPS is a made-up mental disorder because Ketamine has either cured CRPS or has shown to be effective in managing it in some people, in spite of it still being experimental and having never been approved for this use.

Many many drugs have proven to be either as effective or even more effective in treating conditions or disorders other than those the drug was developed or initially marketed.

Exactly. I know few, if any, actual mental health professionals who would purport that bipolar disorder isn't "real." And no, most of them are not funded by pharm companies.

Assess someone on the tail end of a two-week-long manic episode, then come in here and say the condition doesn't exist.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

It is possible you may have symptoms and signs of Bipolar Disorder but you should see a physician to see if you meet the diagnostic criteria for BD or any other mood disorder.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/bipolar-disorder/DS00356/DSECTION=tests-and-diagnosis

Psychiatry is a fascinating subject and there is so much still to uncover. In many ways, its like biology before we had the knowledge of cells and other biochemical processes. We could observe the 'what' but never the 'why' or the 'how'.