Posted by linkadge on June 2, 2006, at 15:36:25
In reply to Re: What Do You Think Of All the New Types of Bipolar?, posted by bipolarspectrum on June 2, 2006, at 14:57:09
I think its mostly B.S.
I personally think that there are simply a lot of unipolar people who are given bipolar meds simply due to the lack of effectiveness of antidepressants. Psychiatry likes to think they have the answers and treatments for every illness. They diagnose these disorders by "process of elimination". That is wrong.
I think a lot of the currently medications act like stimulants and are making a lot of people bipolar.
Am I going to take medications for bipolar because a treatment gave me symtpoms resembling bipolar?
We're all capable of depression or mania. Those parts of the brain exist in all of us. But we don't all exhibit mania or hypomania on a daily basis. You'd be hard pressed to find me in a manic or hypomanic state. To say that 40% of bipolars are unipolar is nonsense in my opinion.
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