Posted by sigismund on June 6, 2011, at 1:00:43
In reply to Re: don't change your life - change your drug » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on June 5, 2011, at 23:35:49
Terrible things can happen with the application of a diagnosis. Once you have it you start your explanations.....Oh, I have such and such and such and such made me do it. I think this is common with bipolar 2. Maybe I think that because it didn't exist 30 years ago. No one would do this with (say) yin deficiency. We are bewitched by language.
It's so easy to medicalise things. I knew of a kid who stayed in bed for more than 6 months and wouldn't go to school. I said to the worried parent that it was quite understandable, and that if I had a kid like that (at a pinch) we might be able to read Dostoyevsky together.
As it turned out, the kid left all the yobs and bogans here and went to Italy and is fine. There is nothing crazy about not wanting to get out of bed. The world can be immensely depressing.
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