Posted by Meri-Tuuli on June 3, 2006, at 6:25:58
In reply to Re: What Do You Think Of All the New Types of Bipolar?, posted by linkadge on June 3, 2006, at 0:59:21
> Just because a mood stabilizer works in a depressive disorder, doesn't mean that one has bipolar disorder.
I think this is very very true.
Does it really matter what specific diagnosis you have - its the symptoms that count!!
I simply think that bipolar has become a very fashionable term, and is pretty liberally applied, espically in Northern America.
I honestly think that the number of people with true bipolar, is relatively small, and there is a alot of people in the unipolar spectrum (I'm calling it).
I mean, the thing is, mood disorders are so incredibly complicated, that it doesn't make sense to simply label someone unipolar, or then bipolar. It really isn't as simple as raising sertonin levels or whatever.
Anyway, here in the UK nearly everyone is unipolar -- I get the impression that you're only bipolar if you have had 'proper' manic episodes. Mind you, its pretty archaic here for mental health.
Well, I went completely crazy on prozac, which might get interpreted as SSRI induced mania, but seriously, it wasn't. Just because SSRIs might make you appear manic, doesn't always mean that you're bipolar.
Nothing is black and white (or unipolar or bipolar) when it comes to the brain.
Kind regards
Meri
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