Just read in an article from E News that the mom said back in April that Amanda had no mental illness. But I've also rea
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john_stevensfiredragon — 11 years ago(October 02, 2014 01:48 PM)
There are serious issues in the field of psychology/psychiatry you just cannot shake off easily.
for example, there have never been any valid biological tests to prove the existence of any so-called mental illness.
so i would say amanda bynes is probably severely unhappy with her life and has some authority/impulse problems. That's all i can say in my book. -
JRichardSingleton — 11 years ago(October 02, 2014 03:48 PM)
Yes, schizophrenia is real. No one here has diagnosed her, but she could be schizophrenic.
She's not just unhappy. She has some serious psych problem, exacerbated by pot and alcohol.
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john_stevensfiredragon — 11 years ago(October 02, 2014 07:28 PM)
"As of 2013 there is no objective test for schizophrenia and the scientific validity of schizophrenia, and its defining symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations, have been questioned. No biological markers or physiological tests that can be used to diagnose schizophrenia have been found, and there is no clear evidence that the concept of schizophrenia is a valid construct."
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JRichardSingleton — 11 years ago(October 03, 2014 01:41 PM)
Indeed. But the disease is realyou disagree? From the same article: "The diagnosis of schizophrenia is based on criteria in either the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, version DSM-IV-TR, or the World Health Organization's International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, the ICD-10.[1] These criteria use the self-reported experiences of the person and reported abnormalities in behavior, followed by a clinical assessment by a mental health profes5b4sional. Symptoms associated with schizophrenia occur along a continuum in the population and must reach a certain severity before a diagnosis is made.[2]"
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babz12 — 11 years ago(October 04, 2014 01:49 PM)
It's actually more common for females to be diagnosed in their late 20's. Males tend to develop it in the age range of 18-21, while females tend to develop it from 25-29 (which Amanda is). There's no hard and fast rule of when it can be diagnosed but females tend to develop certain mental disorders slightly later on in life than males.
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JRichardSingleton — 11 years ago(October 06, 2014 03:07 PM)
Not too late. She's, what, 25 now? Her behavior was certainly erratic in 2009, when she claimed she was quitting acting. Since then, she began posting erratic tweets, doing drugs, publically undressing and making crazy plans. She lost her license. She was caught smoking weed WHILE driving.
Everyone assumed her quirky behavior was wackiness. Her comedy was probably partially fueled by mental illness.
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Mr_Ectoplasma — 11 years ago(October 07, 2014 06:43 PM)
Apparently today she claimed to be transferring to NYU or Columbia after getting kicked out of FDIM in LA for cheating/doing drugs on campus/paying people to do her homework for her. In a word, she's delusional, but it runs deeper than that.
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gcarras — 10 years ago(October 12, 2015 10:37 PM)
Very good news..see
http://www.tmz.com/2015/10/12/amanda-bynes-fidm-fashion-school/
Amanda Bynes is hot and Lindsay Lohan is not.
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corinnacarpenter — 11 years ago(November 24, 2014 01:36 AM)
- You do not 'come down' with Schizophrenia. It's something you are born with. 2) It can manifest in childhood. There are children who hear voices and experience paranoia.
- It can be misdiagnosed or undiagnosed. I have bi5b4polar disorder and it wasn't until I was 31 that I was diagnosed.
JEFFREY TAMBOR
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ficoce — 11 years ago(April 05, 2015 09:54 PM)
Lol, you're funny. I don't think you've ever witnessed schizophrenia. I mean like, have you personally had any friends that have been so-called diagnosed? If not, go down to your local state hospital and tell the staff all the people there are just unhappy. They might just show you people that were so unhappy they scratched their own eyes out or tore into their intestines with bare hands. That's pretty unhappy right there. It's best to catch this early - usually shows up in early 20's and develops quickly, sometimes weeks and months, from happy normal to "unhappy". Initially acting depressed to family and friends, they may start to self medicate and then withdraw. You don't have to believe in schizophrenia, you do have to acknowledge that people can be "unhappy" to the point they are a danger to themselves and others. We might want to call that very, very unhappy, or ultra unhappy.
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john_stevensfiredragon — 11 years ago(April 06, 2015 04:13 AM)
I DID have a friend who was diagnosed as schizophrenic.
The bizarre behavioral things you're mentioning could have been the result of taking psychiatric drugs forced onto these people called "schizophrenic".
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ficoce — 10 years ago(April 20, 2015 07:51 PM)
Interesting read - for something written by a lawyer. Words are very important in the legal profession, and as far as he states in his paper that schizophrenia is not a disease - I agree with him. It's like calling blindness or dwarfism a disease.
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werecow2003 — 9 years ago(April 19, 2016 01:10 PM)
"As of 2013 there is no objective test for schizophrenia and the scientific validity of schizophrenia, and its defining symptoms such as delusions and hallucinations, have been questioned. No biological markers or physiological tests that can be used to diagnose schizophrenia have been found, and there is no clear evidence that the concept of schizophrenia is a valid construct."
I feel that something needs to be clarified here:
I think people often misunderstand what this kind of thing means; it most emphatically does
not
mean that people diagnosed with the mental illness under examination are actually totally fine.
Because of the difficulty in pinning down the biological causes of mental illness (or any illness, really), labels for psychiatric diagnoses tend to describe a set of similar outward symptoms of mental illness (a syndrome), rather than their underlying causes. What that implies is that there may or may not be any single discrete entity called "schizophrenia"; ins5b4tead the term may cover a (potentially large) number of different underlying biological causes that all happen to produce similar symptoms.
So "schizophrenia" is a term that refers to a set of common symptoms shared between those who suffer from it, but they do not necessarily share a common cause. The same is true for, say, autism, or irritable bowel syndrome, or chronic fatigue syndrome. It is important to understand that when healthcare professionals question the validity of a diagnosis like that, this is not meant to imply that the patients are just making something up, or that there isn't something really wrong with them. People who have these syndromes are in real distress, but different people with the same syndrome may actually have different physical or psychological issues. The classification may therefore have to be revised as we find out more about the underlying causes, or as we learn to refine the diagnoses. -
Calimarina — 10 years ago(May 06, 2015 06:40 AM)
I work as a 911 operator and I can tell if someone suffers from Schizophrenia. If they are off medication they go from one thought to the next never raising or lowering their voice while you speak to them. It's as if their hearing is turned off while their lips are moving. Schizophrenia isn't some made up mental illness as you can read about the disorder from people hundreds of years ago. Their thoughts are scrambled.
Did you also know psychologists cannot agree on what a psychopath/sociopath is? What one psychologist states can be different by another. Just because the field cannot agree on mental states doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
http://www.medicaldaily.com/scientists-prove-chemical-imbalance-theory-schizophrenia-using-brain-model-made-stem-cells-302596