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MrMark
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 Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 4:21 pm Post subject: Bipolar Disorder: A Mistaken Diagnosis (MSN) |
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Sometimes bipolar disorder is easy to miss.
By PsychologyToday.com
One of biggest difficulties concerning bipolar disorder is the thorny issue of mistaken identity. It's a wonder that it even gets treated. A lot of people only notice the low mood swings, never mind those unbelievable highs that seem to send them to the moon. Bipolar disorder affects some 2 to 5 percent of Americans, but how can they combat an illness when they don't know what they have?
A recent study showed that 40 percent of patients initially diagnosed with depression were actually suffering from bipolar disorder. Differentiating the two can be tricky because symptoms look pretty much identical: The thing to remember is that bipolar disorder instigates bouts of depression and mania. In fact, patients may assume the mania is part of their personality rather than signs of illness. Besides, who can remember "up" episodes when the depressive ones are so low?
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ahayes
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bipolar disorder is scary sh**
I'd kill myself if I found out I had it. |
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Quatermass
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| Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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| ahayes wrote: | bipolar disorder is scary sh**
I'd kill myself if I found out I had it. |
Why? Many very creative people have had it. Spike Milligan, for one.
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Lil_Miss_Gloo
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It seems to me that it is often overdiagnosed. With a lot of children (very young children) with psychiatric problems - particularly relating to meed - doctors just tend to slap bipolar on it without much analasis.
Off-the-rails celebrities with criminal tendencies or who can't keep it in their pants tend to get lablelled bipolar (Britney).
It has become quite glamourised as well. It is thought of as being the artists mental problem, common only in wealthy academics.
I have heard young people say "Sometimes I'm really happy and sometimes I'm really sad. I must have manic-depression!", which kind of annoys me. If you go by those definitions, Who doesn't have it? Mood fluctuations are normal. It's when it goes on for a long time and disrupts your daily functioning, then you need a diagnosis.
I am only mentioning this because I used to wonder if I had it, and I now realise that I was probably being rather silly. |
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