Posted by linkadge on May 10, 2007, at 6:38:57
In reply to NIMH on Bipolar Spectrum Disorder, posted by ttee on May 9, 2007, at 16:52:24
I always found it amusing how people like this were so gung ho to diagnosis bipolar, without accounting for the poor likelyhood that patients are going to want to take such toxic meds.
I mean there is no way 4% of the population is going to down some of the toxic meds that are currently used. It is hard enough to get those who really need the meds to take them dispite these subthreshold persons.
Nobody likes antipsychotics, and lithium/valproate are toxic.
Why don't they spend all the money that they are wasting by pushing the diagnosis to develop safer more effective meds?
Just my 2 cents
Linkadge
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