Magical Realist
Valued Senior Member
Yes..it IS an illness and it's NOT your fault. Bipolar survival story number 2:
http://www.pendulum.org/stories/survivor.htm
http://www.pendulum.org/stories/survivor.htm
Yes..it IS an illness and it's NOT your fault. Bipolar survival story number 2:
http://www.pendulum.org/stories/survivor.htm
Research demonstrating the genetic basis of bipolarism:
http://www.pendulum.org/bpnews/archive/cat_bipolar_disorder_genes.html
Yes..it IS an illness and it's NOT your fault.
The ugly thing about "mental illness" is that some people use it as an excuse to treat others poorly - and I mean this that some people label others as "mentally ill" as this way, they feel justified to treat them like less than human. Thereby likely exacerbating whatever problem the person originally had.
"Oh, you're bipolar/a narcissist/depressed/etc.. Therefore I don't have to make an effort to treat you like a human."
So what?
Some people even treat the disabled badly. But we don't say "Oh I'd better not be disabled so these people don't treat me badly." The stigma surrounding mental illness is just part of the burden it creates on people. All the more reason to support them and let them know it's totally acceptable and not their fault.
You are not alone. You're in good company! Here's some famous people who had bipolar disorder:
http://www.famousbipolarpeople.com/
Do you think that you could tell if someone was bipolar or not? what about on a social forum like this?
Where are your examples of this? People are very likely to react badly to bad behavior, but people rarely walk around with a placard of their disorder hanging around their neck, so you cannot call this a reaction to the disorder, only the behavior. Just like unruly children, if people cannot behave then perhaps they should not go out, else they are likely to have their behavior constrained by others.
Where are your examples of this? People are very likely to react badly to bad behavior, but people rarely walk around with a placard of their disorder hanging around their neck, so you cannot call this a reaction to the disorder, only the behavior. Just like unruly children, if people cannot behave then perhaps they should not go out, else they are likely to have their behavior constrained by others.
In a negative sense, enabling is also used in the context of problematic behavior, to signify dysfunctional approaches that are intended to help but in fact may perpetuate a problem. -wiki
Only the overly idealistic would pretend that bad behavior is "totally acceptable", and only the individual can truly help themselves.
According to various sources many famous people must suffer from about every mental disorder out there. Seems those who enable are very interested in keeping people ill (providing encouragement to continue to own said diagnosis), just so long as their symptoms do not impact the enabler's life (i.e. meds, regardless of how those meds impact the patients quality of life).
Anecdotal.
Do you think that you could tell if someone was bipolar or not? what about on a social forum like this?
Yeah, I'm an "authority" on something that I don't even consider to be real. Curious reasoning on your part.You sound like quite an authority on bipolarism.
So... if I don't believe that "bipolar disorder" is a real disease how could I talk about "faked symptoms?" It doesn't make much sense to me.How manic episodes don't really exist and how the psychosis that accompanies it is just cleverly faked symptoms that bipolar patients make up.
It sounds like a conspiracy... but this time I'm afraid it's for real:How the vast pharmaceutical/medical cartel has foisted this fake disorder on naive people like me who have intimately lived with someone who has bipolarism and watched it firsthand destroy lives and entire families for years.
If any mental illness had any clear, identifiable physical effect on the brain, then that illness would be diagnosable using some sort of brain scan. But there's not a single "mental illness" that is diagnosable that way.It's so assuring we have people like you about who can inform us that scientific studies proving higher monomine receptor cell densities in bipolar patients are pseudoscientific because the meds the patients were on magically created all those extra cells in their brains.
Yet another example of flawed reasoning. Can you guess what's wrong?You should submit some articles to some prestigious psychiatric journals in your spare time. I'm sure the scientific world could learn much from your profound wisdom and experience on this matter.
Apparently you don't understand the issue. In order for anything to be treated, it must be real, scientifically confirmed. But it doesn't work like that in psychiatry. ALL the "mental illnesses" are proposed (read invented) and voted into existence by a bunch of individuals at the American Psychiatric Association. Well, that's not how science and medical science works. Nobody votes AIDS infection or cancer in or out of existence as a disease.So our brain scans aren't precise enough yet. Just because there are financial connections between diagnosis and treatment doesn't mean that those treatments aren't effective or aren't scientifically supported with statistical evidence.
Apparently you don't understand the issue. In order for anything to be treated, it must be real, scientifically confirmed. But it doesn't work like that in psychiatry. ALL the "mental illnesses" are proposed (read invented) and voted into existence by a bunch of individuals at the American Psychiatric Association. Well, that's not how science and medical science works. Nobody votes AIDS infection or cancer in or out of existence as a disease.
There's a huge problem when there's a financial connection between those who invent the mental illnesses (they're not controlled in any way by anyone, they can do whatever they wish) and those who benefit financially from those newly invented illnesses (from individual psychiatrists to pharmaceutical companies)
Nobody votes AIDS infection or cancer in or out of existence as a disease.