Posted by alexandra_k on September 21, 2006, at 21:09:17
In reply to Re: the brain » alexandra_k, posted by Squiggles on September 21, 2006, at 19:31:56
> > Why does it sound like a crap shoot to you?
> Crapshoot means "chancy", as in throwing the
> dice and letting roll where it will.You think it is chancier to interveane on the biological, psychological, and social levels than it is to interveane on the biological level only? I don't understand how that could be so... Unless... You are concerned that giving more attention to the psychological and social levels will result in less attention being paid to the biological level...
Remember I'm not saying we should forget about / ignore the biological level. I'm saying we should appreciate that the other two levels are just as important. A multi-level approach instead of a uni-level approach.
> the personal crisis, it could be the background of the person, it could be alienation or early separation, it could be syphillis, it could be a brain tumour, or it could be-- gasp-- mental illness.
How are those other conditions not mental illness?
> Well, I had the same symptoms as those of 20 years ago
Whether you are approapriately dx'd with bi-polar or not depends on if you meet the list of behavioural symptoms for bi-polar or not. You display the symptoms therefore you are appropriately dx'd with bi-polar.
Lithium helps other conditions than bi-polar so it isn't a specific medication for bi-polar. What determines whether you have bi-polar or not is a function of what behaviours you exhibit.
> at least lithium worked for whatever those symptoms which they call "bipolar" were.
Yay. Successful intervention.
That is great :-)
But when intervention at one level isn't successful then maybe it is time to try an inter-level approach.
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