Thread: I'm not bipolar
View Single Post
 
Old Jan 25, 2012, 01:16 AM
Tsunamisurfer's Avatar
Tsunamisurfer Tsunamisurfer is offline
Poohbah
 
Member Since: Oct 2010
Location: In hiding
Posts: 1,020
Diagnoses are just intellectual constructs intended to help clinicians get a handle on how to treat their clients. They are ever evolving, and shouldn't be taken as factual - they are merely descriptive in terms of current nomenclature. Unfortunately, the labels have real world ramifications for how others treat us, and the expectations we ourselves have of our limitations or hope for recovery.
Thanks for this!
Confusedinomicon