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Originally Posted by emgreen
I hate to sound like a jerk, but what's the sense of haggling over labels? Either you feel well, or you don't. I've been diagnosed as BP I, but don't live & die by that label. Over the years I've just learned to adjust & somehow treat a ball of symptoms. I am not BP...I'm just a human being who has emotional/mental problems that need tending to sometimes - generally with the help (not judgement) of a doctor.
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It's NOT about the label, in and of itself. You've missed my point. My point is I want to know what the is going on. If I'm bipolar, fine. If I'm schizophrenic, fine. Why do I want to know the label? For reality testing. If catatonia = schizophrenia. I want to know. Why? Because, I want to know, if I need to expect that, and what to do when it happens. Since I do occasionally have an episode or two, then I want an explanation as why this happening to my body. Why do I want that? Try not being able to move, to the point of not being able to roll your own eyes, and barely able to think. You'll find out. By the way, are schizophrenia and bipolar treated exactly the same way? No, not exactly, actually. There's some antipsychotics you probably wouldn't try to use on a bipolar, at first anyway, and it would be idiotic to give a schizophrenic lithium, depakote, topamax, etc. In fact, it would do more harm than good. Therapy treatment, focuses a little differently sometimes to. Most of the time I'd agree and say labels shmambles, but sometimes they do matter. This time it does.