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Old Jun 12, 2013, 07:54 PM
ultramar ultramar is offline
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Member Since: Mar 2013
Location: USA
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With the rise in Bipolar diagnoses, it seems that they love to blame US. Like we are entirely capable of controlling these severe mood shifts and we are flat out choosing not to. This is at best comical, and at worst incredibly insulting.

I think citing the statistic that it's diagnosed a ton more here than in many other countries isn't an indictment of Americans' lack of control over mood, but ammunition in the argument for overdiagnosis in the U.S. (true or not).