Posted by linkadge on August 2, 2007, at 15:30:16
In reply to Re: My Experience Mirrors Yours, posted by dewdropinn on August 1, 2007, at 18:32:26
One thing I don't think some people realize though, is that these are drugs.
I mean, is not uncommon for amphetamines to cause euphoria in many normal people. Combining it with selegiline might cause more euphoria. (simultanious DAT and MAO-B inhibitition + dopamine release). When one is playing with drug combinations that mimic the activities of drugs of abuse, there is always the chance of inducing euphoria even in normal healthy individuals.
There are people who have come on this board reporting on the euphoria inducing effects of celexa + ritalin for example.
(celexa + ritalin = serotonin + dopamine uptake inhibiton + monoamine release = cocaine)
I mean, regular people abuse drugs like amphetamines to get high. This does not mean they are bipolar, or even soft bipolar, they are just human beings reacting to some hardcore stimulation of the neucleus accumbens.
There are schools of thought that state that bipolar disorder is only present when individuals have unprevoked, non drug induced manic highs.
Psychiatry doesn't want to take the rap for making a whole bunch of people bipolar. They will not admit that their drugs can induce mood swings or euphoria. So, they twist things around (like psychiatry has a nack for), and rephrase it in terms of: "these drugs only unleashed an underlying latent bipolar disorder".
Well that bias is certainly more in favor of psychiatry. You see, in psychiatry, there is never anything wrong with the drugs. If there is a problem, it is the patients problem. Thats the first rule of protecting the establishment.
Linkadge
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