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Posted by utopizen on January 14, 2003, at 20:32:24
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Posted by Craig on January 15, 2003, at 2:35:33
In reply to Wow, TIME has an entire issue this week -mental, posted by utopizen on January 14, 2003, at 20:32:24
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/current/
January 20, 2003 Vol. 161 No. 3 Special Issue/Mind & Body
Posted by Phil on January 15, 2003, at 12:57:39
In reply to TIME Magazine link to current issue, posted by Craig on January 15, 2003, at 2:35:33
It's good to give the disease exposure but the press as a whole don't do much research or talk to the wrong people, show cures that wouldn't affect major depression.
In other words, sometimes they do more harm than good. I just wrote a letter to the editor of Esquire for a comment about Modafinil being an alertness drug of 'epic proportions'. Said soldiers were getting 40 hours of constant alertness and vigilance on it. I said that if they get that much awake time, the army is giving them huge doses or still giving them Dex. The army, I believe, is doing a $100,000,000.00 study on the drug.
Posted by jay on January 15, 2003, at 20:07:22
In reply to Re: TIME Magazine link to current issue, posted by Phil on January 15, 2003, at 12:57:39
In this link, they also talk about 'Borderline Personality Disorder'...and go on to describe people with these as being "headaches" to all around them.(And just painted these folks in a very negative light.) That's just plain nasty...and I don't think very fair or completely accurate.
From my research, many people with BPD are often people who have been misdiagnosed by an *incompetent* doctor, who have their own set of prejudices and bias.
For example..let's say a person who has major anxiety is treated by a doctor who is completely benzophobic, and tow's the current mantra that the "SRI'S" have some magical power to erase most anxiety. (I *had* a psychiatrist like this...who also didn't believe in any type of polypharmacy..etc.) After years of these meds *not* working..the one shrink labels them BPD..or 'difficult'.
Also...what about a bipolar person, who responds negatively to all antidepressants, is not correctly DX'd by their pdoc, and with the dysphoric mania and depression, end up with a "BPD" DX.
I know...any *good* pdoc wouldn't do this...but I think it happens more often then we think. I think many of us on here are not getting the full-out beneficial treatment of a good pdoc who is willing to chart the worlds of diverse, yet scientific and sound (as possible), medication prescribing. Unless there is a *deathly* risk, I don't think a good psychiatrist (should or does) hold back on prescribing *any* of the available treatments for prescription. It also means even going into 'uncharted' worlds, and using some less-conventional (but, guided by education) treatments.
Anyhow..just IMHO...
Jay
Posted by syringachalet on January 15, 2003, at 20:25:42
In reply to Re: TIME Magazine link..one disturbing aspect.., posted by jay on January 15, 2003, at 20:07:22
Hey, Jay,
I find it interesting that TIME magazine would write such inaccruacys.
I wonder if they know that famous people like Jamie Lee Curtis and Elton John and many others have been openly diagnosised as BPD.
Im sure lots of famous people in film and the arts would easily be Dx as BPD.
For some it is probaly what gives/gaves them their unique prespective and incredible drive to succed in their kraft.Where is the line to be drawn between some whom is just a "type-A"/"overachiever" and someone who is BPD??
Also just whom is qualified to make that Dx?
On most of these famous people this type of Dx would be a very subjective judgment that would "be in the eyes of the beholder"...Just my thoughts.....
syringachalet
Posted by coral on January 17, 2003, at 15:16:31
In reply to Re: TIME Magazine link..one disturbing aspect.., posted by jay on January 15, 2003, at 20:07:22
Dear Jay:
Your post more fully describes people who are misdiagnosed which is a real problem. However, in reviewing stats on BPD, they're pretty alarming. I have two practicing BPD's in my family and can attest to the difficulty of this disorder, especially if the one afflicted refuses treatment.
Coral
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