Posted by qbsbrown on March 31, 2010, at 12:18:14
In reply to Re: bipolar, i dont understand, posted by manic666 on March 29, 2010, at 6:49:35
Manic, have you heard of the medication Provigil? It's actually used for excess sleepiness and narcolepsy, and off label for adhd, BUT, is beginning to show, in some cases GREAT effect for bipolar depression, w/o causing the mania, depression, irritability, that all of the other crap antidepressants they try to give you. It is greatly worth a shot.
I don't know if I can post this, but this site is hands down the most informative out there that there is on bipolarity, and the treatment for it, http://psycheducation.org/
Also look GREATLY into the foremost leading bipolar expert Gary Sachs who runs the Bipolar Clinic and Research Program at Harvard.
80 percent of bipolar knowledgable "experts" out there would not give a bipolar an antidepressant.
And once again, bipolar is the new "fad" DX of the latest generation. Is there much validity to it? i don't thinks so. Just as calories used to be bad, then it was fat, then it was carbs etc etc, it will always change.
Until there are any "proven" test out there, say through blood test etc, it is tough to say that mental illness is legitimate thing. They've been trying to find or prove "chemical imbalances" over the past 30 years, with no success.
I'm sure this will stir the pot, but I do believe that psychiatry has ruined just as many lives as it may have helped. And I might even be a hyoprite, and have to used some drugs, albeit the best time of my life was when i was drug free.
I do know many persons who seem to need their meds, and respond well to them, and saves their live, and i am not against that, because i had a drug save my life before.
But my first manic episode was induced by an antidepressant. It was benzo wihdrawal that got me diagnosed OCD, and it was the effects of antidepressants that got me labeled bipolar. It's a very pseudoscience, and you are very right in your questioning.
i will say that taking an antidepressant for "panic disorder" when i was in college "saved" my life, when in retrospect, psychotherapy probably would have been the best. I do believe that psychiatric drugs have for the most part ruined my life over the past 7 years, and that is my fault for taking that first benzo,,,,...but who wouldn't when you are experiencing derealization 24/7.
If you like your highs, and you aren't hurting anyone, and not spending money, and endandering people including yourself, that's your choice.
Or you can be doped up on depakote and zyprexa to slow you down into a zombie with no cognitive function.
It's a tough call.
Sorry for my soap box today.
Brian
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