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Originally Posted by fishsandwich
Thanks, I'll go have a read.
I never really like articles in the Guardian, actually. A lot of times, I think the Guardian prints slightly controversial stuff to rile their readers up a bit.
I've seen that author speak before (he's a colleague of my therapist) and he's much more level-headed when he has more time to talk or space to write. I think it would have been a good thesis (the bit about the bipolar explosion being linked to expiring patents) if he had actually talked about that. My guess is that he's about to start promoting a new book and just wants column inches with his name on them.
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Yeah it would be interesting to hear more about that, but it seemed to make a few good points but never really elaborate on them. Would've been interesting to read the full thing rather than the published edited version.
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Originally Posted by dark_heart_x
I'm usually on the bipolar board and saw the title of this, and this is odd to me, because my mood swings are the least of my problems when it comes to bipolar. Sure I have depression and i have dysphoric mania, and it isn't any fun. But the things that really bother me about having bipolar are the fact that I seem to be losing my ability to function.
The obsessive racing thoughts that can last weeks on end, the slow but steady loss to my memory, losing my skills such as grammar and spelling and the ability to focus and read (I couldn't read the whole article even,) after having always been such a great writer and an avid reader... not being able to get my life in order. Everything around me becoming a huge mess, and me sitting there thinking I'm totally in control of what I'm doing at the time, only to look back later and see how I was just bumbling blindly along. And it's not that I don't want to get organized and that I don't try, it just doesn't seem to happen. Everything is like sand slipping through my fingers.... These are the types of things that get me.
If it was just mood, I think I could handle that a bit better.
And no, these are not side effects to medicine, as I'm not in treatment, and only have taken meds for 1 year out of my life 2 years ago.
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That's the thing dark_heart. It's not the mood thing that's the problem, is it?! I tell my pdoc all the time that if I was just miserable then I wouldn't be bothering them. It's the complete inability to function. The fact that my brain just simply won't work properly. I was actually tested recently and my IQ has dropped since being depressed because of a major problem following written material and responding appropriately and quickly enough (the skill had a fancy name but I can't remember it, sorry). I have to edit what I write with screen-reading software so that it makes sense, and I struggle reading even with the screen-reading software. I only skimmed the article (I only skim most things these days unfortunately - used to LOVE reading too!) too.
*Willow*