Nov 09, 2014 at 10:49 AM
My daughter is 21. When she was a teen I noticed her and her friends saying they were bi polar. "I swear I am bi polar." My daughter did have some very real problems with depression but she never said it in that context. I think they were trying to describe normal teenage moodiness. There is less stigma and it is talked about in schools now so it doesn't surprise me that more people use the terms.
I don't like how depression is way over diagnosed and way over prescribed. The term is used way to broadly I think. When I think of depression it is something very severe and serious. That is my experience with it though.
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The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be." -- Richard Feynman
Major Depressive Disorder
Anxiety Disorder with some paranoid delusions thrown in for fun.
Recovering Alcoholic and Addict
Possibly on low end of bi polar spectrum...trying to decide.
Male, 50
Fetzima 80mg
Lamictal 100mg
Remeron 30mg for sleep
Klonopin .5mg twice a day, cutting this back
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