Psychiatrists: Get Your Heads Screwed On Properly!
stop overdiagnosing people and offering medication when it may be inappropriate!
you're giving those of us with real psychiatric afflictions look less legitimate. it's insulting to have someone say, "you don't really have bipolar, it's all in your head," or "how bad can it be? you don't need all those medications!"
like hell i don't. ignorance is the luxury of the mentally healthy.
bipolar is NOT:
an attitude problem
a weakness of character
laziness
insanity
a figment of the person's imagination
fixable through will or "effort" or "trying harder"
a spiritual problem
treatable with anything other than meds; if you don't need meds, you don't have bipolar
[including, of course, newer treatments like transcranial magnetic stimulation, stimulant at base of brain, ECT, etc. as treatment]
an unresolved emotional problem
psychological--it is psychiatric, which is not the same
you're giving those of us with real psychiatric afflictions look less legitimate. it's insulting to have someone say, "you don't really have bipolar, it's all in your head," or "how bad can it be? you don't need all those medications!"
like hell i don't. ignorance is the luxury of the mentally healthy.
bipolar is NOT:
an attitude problem
a weakness of character
laziness
insanity
a figment of the person's imagination
fixable through will or "effort" or "trying harder"
a spiritual problem
treatable with anything other than meds; if you don't need meds, you don't have bipolar
[including, of course, newer treatments like transcranial magnetic stimulation, stimulant at base of brain, ECT, etc. as treatment]
an unresolved emotional problem
psychological--it is psychiatric, which is not the same
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