sadbadpsychogirl
sonofabitch
- May 29, 2020
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i was recently in a mental hospital where one patient told me that bipolar is not real and he has proof... so what do ya'll think? i'd say its pretty real but then what the hell do i know..
What was the other patient in the hospital for? Did he have bipolar but is just in denial?
What was the other patient in the hospital for? Did he have bipolar but is just in denial?
What was the other patient in the hospital for? Did he have bipolar but is just in denial?
Why was this patient in a mental hospital for in the first place?
In my honest opinion I think the symptoms are real but the underlying cause my not be what they say. It seems that some people legit have periods of major manic high times and then extreme lows lasting for long periods. I sometimes wonder if they are triggered into lasting flashbacks by outside events. There's a thing called emotional flashbacks that comes from having had early negative stressful events caused by child maltreatment. They can last anywhere from hours, days, to weeks or months. Then u snap out of the flashback and wonder what the hell? Where have I been? When u come back to sanity or a baseline mood and functioning. I was diagnosed as bipolar but I actually have emotional disorder or borderline personality disorder. Sometimes the meds can cause mania or hypomania. I wonder if it's the meds that actually make people have mania. I wouldn't know but I experienced hypomania on Prozac and adderall.i was recently in a mental hospital where one patient told me that bipolar is not real and he has proof... so what do ya'll think? i'd say its pretty real but then what the hell do i know..
When I was sectioned one guy told me that he is going to become king.i was recently in a mental hospital where one patient told me that bipolar is not real and he has proof... so what do ya'll think? i'd say its pretty real but then what the hell do i know..
When I was sectioned one guy told me that he is going to become king.
How serious do you think he was?
As a person who has a diagnosis of bipolar, I'm unsure whether bipolar has a biological mechanism (i.e. there is a real difference), or whether it is to some extent an arbitrary label given to people with certain 'issues' or patterns of behaviour (a lot of psychiatric diagnoses fall into this category).
Either way, it isn't a disease.
Sorry, who are you talking about?i couldn't tell if he was serious or just messing with everyone, he kept threatening to get all the staff fired,, call the news networks, claimed to be a millionaire, all this grandiose bs, he was treated very well by everyone he just wanted to make a scene..
Sorry, who are you talking about?
OK this person shouldn't be listened to.the guy who said it was fake and was caused by my bones crushing nerves in my brain....
Sorry if I sound like an ass, but bipolar disorder is a mood disorder. It may affect the personality, but it's not a personality disorder.Well at the end of the day all the disorders of personality are merely arbitrary namings of various associations of traits. The labels are created out of need to help people rather than proper scientific investigation.
Replace the word personality with mood then. My point is still the same.Sorry if I sound like an ass, but bipolar disorder is a mood disorder. It may affect the personality, but it's not a personality disorder.
Well at the end of the day all the disorders of personality are merely arbitrary namings of various associations of traits. The labels are created out of need to help people rather than proper scientific investigation.
You are missing the point. No disorders of mood or personality are objectively real. They skip the scientific method out of a necessary need to help people. Now I don't know if the person the OP was speaking to was arguing these points but with all the comments in here I felt the need to make the point.Are manic, hypomanic, depressive, and mixed episodes traits? I think most people would label them symptoms.
You are missing the point. No disorders of mood or personality are objectively real. They skip the scientific method out of a necessary need to help people. Now I don't know if the person the OP was speaking to was arguing these points but with all the comments in here I felt the need to make the point.
You are missing the point. No disorders of mood or personality are objectively real. They skip the scientific method out of a necessary need to help people. Now I don't know if the person the OP was speaking to was arguing these points but with all the comments in here I felt the need to make the point.
@SlowMo
Statistics and case studies give credibility to theories in psychology, but they lack the rigor of "harder" sciences.
It's scientific. Pattern recognition among the population of mentally ill, grouping the superficially similar presentations, in-vitro experiments to discover potential mechanisms, grouping patients and trialing treatments with controls etc. making hypotheses based on all of this, testing the hypotheses. This is a scientific process, even if the results are underwhelming or still preliminary.You are missing the point. No disorders of mood or personality are objectively real. They skip the scientific method out of a necessary need to help people. Now I don't know if the person the OP was speaking to was arguing these points but with all the comments in here I felt the need to make the point.