Do you think bipolar disorder is being over diagnosed?!


Question: Do you think bipolar disorder is being over diagnosed.?
when i was in my first psychiatric hospital i was diagnosed as major depressive with psyhotic features and anxiety disorder. My psychiatrist and gp before believed the same.

After being released i signed a agreement to seek treatment at a local MHMR. even though i told them my diagnoses and gave them the discharge work, a counselor there basically went to one of those online tests anyone can do and diagnosed me as bipolar cuz i said i get hyper sometimes

everyone gets hyper though! its rare that i do, the only thing i have that can be related to bipolar is the rapid thoughts and wanting to do many things at once, but i believe my psychiatrist versus a counselor who just marked off stuff on a computer.

do you think bipolar disorder is being overly diagnosed.? who would u trust in my situation.?Health Question & Answer


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Anyone who would diagnose you using an online questionnaire after an appointment or two is completely off their rocker. Stick with your first diagnosis. A lot of new doctors have a particular disorder that interests them more and I think they have a tendency to see everyone that way, kinda like a hypochondriac in reverse...... they see the same thing everywhere they look because it's what they want to see. I was diagnosed with major depressive disorder until I went into a full blown mania. At that point it was pretty obvious. I now have the label of "bipolar I" among others.....Health Question & Answer

I would trust the people at the psychiatric hospital and their diagnosis.
Today, it seems like no one is just depressed anymore, everyone is bipolar. I have it, my mom has it, my 3 closest friends have it, the dog next door has it. I personally think that councilors use bipolar as an easy way out instead of actually talking with and listening to the patient.
Plus, your psychiatrist went to a heck or a lot more school than the councilor did (there's a roughly 4 to 7 year gap, depending on specialties).Health Question & Answer

Personally, I don't think that bipolar disorder is over-diagnosed. There are still a lot of people out there with this illness who don't know what's happening to them.

That said, like any illness, it can be mis-diagnosed.

The fact that the counsellor just did it on an online test worries me - a real diagnosis of bipolar disorder requires extensive questioning and observance.

Discuss it with your psychiatrist, see what they think. If it's not going to change your treatment or anything, then let the counsellor think what they want - the important thing is that you get the right help.Health Question & Answer

Speaking from personal experience, I was diagnosed with Bipolar II about 6 years ago. But NOW, i have a new diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder. One psyc diagnosed me with the Bipolar II, another diagnosed me with BPD....which one's right.?.? You got me! I dont have a f**kin clue what I am to be quite honest! But to answer your question more specifically....yes. I think its become the new "ADHD" (if you get what I mean)Health Question & Answer

If you want to be sure, go to a college library and check out the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual Of Mental Disorders (DSM 4 TR). You can look up bipolar 1, bipolar 2 and cyclothymia and make your own diagnosis.

However, the only real solutions to mental health problems are found in the bible. Check out this website: http://www.mentalhealthsolutions.info/Health Question & Answer

Not entirely. I'm under the impression that there are various environmental reasons for these alleged illnesses. There are also many evolving bacteria and other organisms also. I have an older son who was diagnosed with bipolar and has recently turned manic under stress. In some way, this "bipolar" can also be a reaction to stress and repressing feelings about the type of lives we're forced to exist in like a caged animal, similar to dissociative identity disorder. Bipolar is as if the beginning stages of these progressive symptoms of psychosis.

I've been on disability for 5 years now and was labeled as being schizo affective with dissociative identity disorder. The one recent psychiatrist said I was now bipolar and in remission. My stress level has been greatly reduced by elimination and changes in diet. Allergies and food sensitivities can be triggered and accumulative by stressful environments. There also seems to be a connection to autism and seizures. There are now claims this can be reduced by changes in diet*.

You might want to try an elimination diet. I tried a vegetarian diet and was really sick without certain proteins. There was apparently a strong suggestion there was a problem with food metabolism. I've since been regularly eating plain non-fat yogurt flavored with real maple syrup and lemon juice. It's much cheaper by the quart or larger.

List all of your symptoms and do searches on them.

If our symptoms are really caused by stress, which can accumulate over a lifetime, this could be one major reason and a beginning to recovery by reducing their amount and affect. I've since recalled repressed memories as if unwinding for the past 5 years.

Diet*:
http://www.bipolar-lives.com/diet-and-ma...

http://www.salicylatesensitivity.com/abo...

There's so much information on the internet for self help. Some people may be progressed to the point they can't think for themselves to figure it out. That's where some medications can help and some that can even kill without being monitored. I was on seroquel which to me can be deadly with the wrong diet. I think 25mg is enough. Now I'm on Lamictal which is also prescribed for seizures.
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Yes! I definitely do! I have a friend who was diagnosed with it and he gave her some meds to take besides the xanex she already has been taking for anxiety, she also smokes weed. (He obviously doesnt know of the weed)
Nevertheless she ONLY takes the xanex and smokes. She has been telling the doc. she has been taking her bipolar meds and after a few months he actually told her it's (the bipolar meds) improving her condition.
I personally think its bull shi* that they are diagnosing ppl with this disorder so often. Dont get me wrong I do believe there are people out there who NEED those meds and actually do have bipolar disorder. But I think the Doctors are diminishing the realazation of just how rare those disorders are. NOT EVERYONE HAS IT>
But also, with all the drugs people are taking now days, Im sure alot of doctors may think ppl have it b/c some days ppl's moods are one way, and the next TOTALLY different! b/c of DRUGS, After a while ppl. dont know how to behave.
Not saying you do drugs, but with the condition the world is in people are confused and life is making people crazy, (or thinking they are crazy)
(2 Timothy 3:1-5) "But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. 2?For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self-assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, 3?having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, 4?betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God, 5?having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power; and from these turn away."Health Question & Answer

yes people are using it as a scapegoat
yes yes thumbs down me people but its true and you know it and those of you giving a thumbs down are probably using it as a scapegoat yourself!Health Question & Answer



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