OVERCOMING bi-polar

jacky,

I hear what you're saying. I disdain Big Pharma the same as I do big banks and the government does nothing to control the costs of meds, since the pharmaceutical companies influence the FDA and Congress. but I don't think there's a conspiracy by psychiatrists and drug companies regarding he dx of mood disorders, though ADD/ADHD seems to be overly diagnosed in young boys, who are then, quickly, medicated. Being a rambunctious boy is now considered an illness. Off my soapbox for now, lol.

Just had to chime in here.

People say ADHD is overly diagnosed but for every kid out there that has been labeled there are others who have not.

I WISH I had been diagnosed. Medication might have kept me on the right path.

First grade I got in trouble for blurting out the answers without raising my hand. I was in "gifted" classes through 8th grade. Put into H.S. honors classes, but this is when my brain was actually forced to WORK and I didn't have the capability for it. It got hard, required an attention I didn't have and so I stopped going. Fvcked up my life immensely after that so I don't knock the supposed rambunctious boy but that's just me. Who happens to be drinking right now, lol.

I find your approach offensive..do not for a second think it is that easy for others.

All right!!! One flew over the cuckoo's nest!!!.

Not caring does actually work. They call it schizophrenia. Just add some antisocial personality to completely distance yourself from your emotions.

Some of that is helpful. Schizoaffective disorder together with some borderline personality works well for me: you don't wanna completely shut out reality, your emotional responses.

But I doubt not caring, distancing yourself from your emotions, is something you can learn later in life, when you've already developed a personality. Psychopaths can be diagnosed at age 15. I think it might be rather apparent quite some years earlier. Maybe some of that can be simulated.

But it takes huge sacrifices, you should overcome lots of personality problems and it's a difficult balancing act.

I don't see how it's like BP-II. Borderline personality or antisocial personality, and SZ are not very much like BP-II, I'd say. Mania or mixed states tend to be more prominent, depressions might generally be shorter (the severe parts). So if you've reached that point, you might have learned it later in life. That's nice!

Caring less may be a good lesson for us all, just to function.

And more should fly over cuckoo's nests. Maybe not as in the film, though.

I'm overcoming my whatever and so what?. You got a problem with that?.
You're not the only one who's gonna fly high. Got that?. Good.
'Nough said. All right?. I dare you to reply. What, are you scared?. Ah?.
I knew it. You have been out of this forum since January and never looked back.
That's why I'm so brave. Get it?.

Thanks, Sancho. Or Don Quixote.

He left? Didn't you arrive here like in early February? I may see a pattern there.