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my suicide story (pg. 5)
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| butterfly |
| quote: | Originally posted by AnotherWay83
my family has been super-supportive...i've become a sort of celebrity here lol...but yeah they've found a good psychiatrist and i've been diagnosed with bipolar disorder... |
i think bipolar disorder is a very over-diagnosed disease. i dont doubt that you need help and that you probably should be on meds right now, but i have trouble grasping the concept that so many people in our country are truly chemically imbalanced. i get upset sometimes that our culture attacks depression with meds that we dont really understand instead of truly investigating the causes.... |
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| Slylee |
| yea the reason why so many people are diagnosed w/ bipolar,ADD or anxiety disorder is mainly because the people w/ the problem go to psychiatrists as opposed to a licensed pyschologist. psychiatrists will just do an examination, make a diagnosis, and send you off w/ about 3 diff prescriptions in your hand in about 15 minutes (after waiting in the lobby for 30) without ever getting to the root of the problem. |
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| butterfly |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
yea the reason why so many people are diagnosed w/ bipolar,ADD or anxiety disorder is mainly because the people w/ the problem go to psychiatrists as opposed to a licensed pyschologist. psychiatrists will just do an examination, make a diagnosis, and send you off w/ about 3 diff prescriptions in your hand in about 15 minutes (after waiting in the lobby for 30) without ever getting to the root of the problem. |
the whole process disturbs me greatly. i went to a therapist once and one of the first things she recommended was going to a pschiatrist to get something perscribed. it irritates me that people dont even try to help you. |
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| TranceGiant |
| quote: | Originally posted by butterfly
the whole process disturbs me greatly. i went to a therapist once and one of the first things she recommended was going to a pschiatrist to get something perscribed. it irritates me that people dont even try to help you. |
On the other hand most people who suffer from such problems want a clear pathological diagnosis for convenience sake, or simply due to the fact that our rational minds hardly comprehend psychological problems( = emotions ) that are irrational per se. |
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| AnotherWay83 |
| im gonna have to agree...at no time during my entire stay at the hospital did a doctor ever spend more than 5 mins A DAY on me...not once did any1 actually talk to me abt what pushed me over...they just kept trying diff. meds and stuff and i felt like i was a guinea pig lol...first they misdiagnosed me with schizophrenia...now im off the prozac and on lithium+something else |
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| butterfly |
| quote: | Originally posted by AnotherWay83
im gonna have to agree...at no time during my entire stay at the hospital did a doctor ever spend more than 5 mins A DAY on me...not once did any1 actually talk to me abt what pushed me over...they just kept trying diff. meds and stuff and i felt like i was a guinea pig lol...first they misdiagnosed me with schizophrenia...now im off the prozac and on lithium+something else |
does that bother you? now that you are out of the hospital are you going to try and understand why you feel so depressed? do you already? (sorry if this is invasive) the whole process boggles me and i dont understand how people do get better. |
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| jdjd |
| quote from Robert Smith from The Cure: "There are too many tall buildings in the world for there to exist something such as 'attempted' suicide" |
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| whiskers |
| quote: | Originally posted by butterfly
the whole process boggles me and i dont understand how people do get better. |
simple - drugs. instead of curing the problem they only suppress it with drugs and then call it a 'cure' - all bs.
they don't even know what really causes mental problems, they know that giving you lithium makes you less depressed, but the illness is STILL THERE. instead of naturally working through the messed up chemical imbalance in your brain you take drugs. |
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| MERTON |
| hey! just have someone call you a dumbass in a red foreman voice while smacking you upside yer head! that'll cure it.:toothless |
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| AnotherWay83 |
| quote: | Originally posted by butterfly
does that bother you? now that you are out of the hospital are you going to try and understand why you feel so depressed? do you already? (sorry if this is invasive) the whole process boggles me and i dont understand how people do get better. |
fortunately someone in my family is a psychiatrist and yesterday she had a long talk with me that i really think was helpful... |
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| Switch |
| quote: | Originally posted by butterfly
.....but i have trouble grasping the concept that so many people in our country are truly chemically imbalanced.... |
haha you're all imbalanced, just look at the amount of people that chose Bush :o |
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| butterfly |
| quote: | Originally posted by AnotherWay83
fortunately someone in my family is a psychiatrist and yesterday she had a long talk with me that i really think was helpful... |
that is really good. talking is the most helpful. i have met ppl on TA that really helped with problems too.
and switch... most people i know hate bush. but a whole lot of the country seems to be brainwashed or something. |
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