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Now I think I understand why they keep marking me down as "agitated" at admissions at the local mental hospital and often put on bipolar or something. It's because they make me wait for hours down in admissions room. They always think it's something important to report, but don't understand it's an artifact of the waiting process. I always react to having to wait for such a long time like this, so it's not hypomania or something, jeez people. It's pretty repeatable.

Luckily, I had a different doctor the last stay, who could see the bipolar diagnosis was BS.

Ohhhh geez they always get me wrong also.... hang in there. They may be even more mentally unbalanced than we are!

Of course they are - it's astronomically arrogant for anyone to believe that even scientific Latin might suffice to describe all the nuance of human brains and consciousness. Doctors are scrambling to write as many Bipolar diagnoses as they possibly can in order to receive big checks from drug companies.

Yeah, they're pretty quick to assume some mood disorder. Like a lot of people like to say I was depressed at some point, including my psychologist, but I got some reasonable psychiatrists the past couple of times, and they're like, You don't have a mood disorder and never had one.

I remember in my last stay, when I was in the emergency room, I told the psyche person I lost weight because I had been taken off of Zyprexa which caused a lot of weight gain for me, and they were like, So you lost weight, huh? You must be depressed!

I'm like, Um, no, they don't think I'm depressed. They took me off the Zyprexa and put me on Seroquel, as Zyprexa was causing unhealthy weight gain and I'm finally getting that weight off.

He was, like, Well, I still think that means you're depressed.

Sometimes, especially if I don't take anything that helps, taking the Seroquel, if I don't go to sleep immediately, I get this really bad dysphoria along with a lot of negative thinking that I never really had outside of drug side effects.

Now I'm wondering if that bad dysphoria along with the negative thinking is what is truly depression, though in my case it's a side effect. That negative thinking I would think would be characteristic of depression. Now, how to communicate to my psychologist that I don't really ever think that way outside of drug side effects...

And the thing about being quick to diagnose mood disorders is that with mood disorders you need to watch the patient over time to confirm it or rule it out. Cross-sectional diagnosis can neither confirm nor rule out a mood disorder.