Is anyone else not quite certain Bipolar disorder even exists?
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J-Curl-BiggernBlacker — 5 years ago(July 22, 2020 08:16 PM)
If they stopped overprescribing them in the first place, that wouldn’t be such an issue.
I remember when I was 23, I was on them for a month and they made me feel much worse. I chucked them out swiftly and never looked back.
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Platonic_Caveman — 5 years ago(July 28, 2020 06:31 PM)
Whether or not bipolar is an actual medical condition, I can't say. There may be some people who have such severe swings between 'high' and 'low' that they require medication.
But I think most these fools who say they are bipolar are just assholes making excuses for being assholes. "Oh, I'm a prick, but don't blame me, I'm sick!!! I'll be nice later."
And of course the pharmaceutical industry wants to make money off drugs so they're all for it!!!
Again though, there may be some people who have such a medical condition. But there's grown up a whole 'bipolar' culture around the idea which is a bunch of nonsense.
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Ert — 5 years ago(July 28, 2020 06:33 PM)
I guess you know nothing about it?
Bipolar doesn't mean you switch back and forth in a day. They may be level for years and will suddenly have a high that can last for a few months followed by a low.
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Platonic_Caveman — 5 years ago(July 28, 2020 06:53 PM)
I don't claim to know much about it. I conceded that it may be very real for many of those diagnosed.
But I have seen it used it as an excuse for just rude abysmal behavior. I'm thinking in particular of a friend's boyfriend who would horribly abuse her, verbally. She would just excuse him as being "bipolar". Sorry, sick or not sick, there's no excuse for being an asshole.
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Platonic_Caveman — 5 years ago(July 28, 2020 07:47 PM)
No, "retarded" is used as an insult without intending to give a legitimate diagnosis. It's much like the oft-used term "clown nose" in that respect.
She was actually giving her boyfriend a medical excuse to be an asshole.
See the difference now?*
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Sorry, that's an Officer Hottie-ism I like to use occasionally.
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Platonic_Caveman — 5 years ago(July 28, 2020 08:11 PM)
He was actually diagnosed with bipolar though.
My bottom line on this: Sure, the person may have a legitimate medical condition. But they may be using this medical condition as an excuse to behave like dickwads.
And then there's all these other non-diagnosed people who excuse their own anti-social behavior by saying they're bipolar.
Like I said, it's become a subculture of dysfunction.
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