Posted by garnet71 on February 21, 2009, at 11:01:24
In reply to Re: Bipolar Diagnosis and Drug Abuse Seldomseen » Garnet71, posted by Phillipa on February 18, 2009, at 0:10:11
No Phillipa, I think it's that adrenaline factor--for her (my sis) being an adrenaline junkie. I have some of that in me too, though. She never heard voices or hallucinated, anything like that. Schitzophrenia does run in the family, among other things. I think maybe my family's dopamine levels are messed up. We have an uncle with a learning disability (didn't talk until about 6) and dyslexia; he doesn't appear to have any problems communicating at all know, and he works in machinery and is highly mechanically inclined. We also have a cousin, now 13, who has low-functioning autism.
Autism is such a mystery, and it scares me for our society. I think, just a random thought, that some who are treatment-resistant for depression actually are misdiagnosed. Asperger's is a form of autism that is commonly misdiagnosed. The spectrum of autism is very broad. There are people out there who don't even know they may be in that spectrum.
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