BP or Manic Depressive?

if it's ok to ask can I ask...why did you want to know Hammy?

I was wondering how it would come out. Bipolar is much more politically correct, and modern, so I expected it to win. On the other hand, MD is descriptive so I expected it to gain some votes, but not as many as it did. In general, I have a background in probability and statistics so I sometimes have random interests, if that answers your question.

yes...good enough!

you are hereby permitted to conduct further tests when required...




hehe....just bein' a wacker Hamster!

I like stats too...

Manic Depressive won with me for 2 simple reasons... Its descriptive and doesn't contain the word disorder, disease, illness, syndrome or whatever else... If I could choose tho... Itd be something along the lines of EmotiaMental OverDrive, EmotioMental HyperActivity EmotioMental Asphyxiation... Idk, something like that I guess...

I prefer depression and anxiety. My hypomania generally presents as anxiety so I prefer these labels instead. They are more socially acceptable than Bipolar/Manic Depressive IMO.

Sensitive creative as a term suffers from two problems that in information retrieval are called precision and recall. We are looking for a term that describes everyone with the disease and does not describe anyone without the disease. That would be the ideal term. "Sensitive creative" describes my friend, a poet with a sensitive soul who is mentally well. So "sensitive creative" casts its net too wide - it captures people without illness. That is a precision problem. It also does not quite capture everyone with the illness - for instance, I am not particularly creative and I am definitely not sensitive, I am rather emotionally numb. So that is a recall problem. Speaking in the terms of medical statistics, we would have both false positives (my friend the poet) and false negatives (myself) with sensitive creative. But it definitely is a beautiful term that would have won if it were a beauty contest.

For Bipolar I, "manic depressive" is absolutely precise - every single patient has mania and depression. It does not capture important facets of the illness, however, such as anxiety. So I am still on the lookout for that perfect name.