Is the Bipolar disease a real disease?
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It's not fake. It's also called manic depressive. You go from being all crazy and attention grabbing to being so depressed to the point of wanting to commit suicide.
In some cases, people won't remember what they did in a manic state when they are depressed and vice versa. If you think of a radio wave or something like that, people usually function like that. Sometimes being happy and out going, sometimes being slightly depressed and more introspective. Bi-polar is when the waves go up in down in extreme heights and falls. A person will be balanced out at some point, but they will go through these stages constantly if they aren't medicated.
Someone that is diagnosed can go anywhere from 6 months being manic, a month at a normal level, and then 6 months being depressed. Or they can change much quicker, even on a day to day basis.
The doctors in England may have been Scientologists and that is why they said that bi-polar disorder isn't real. Scientologist think that psychology is a pseudo science and has no real understanding of the mind. They are against medicated drugs to correct psychological disorders because they don't think that there is any real chemical in-balance in the brain, but that these disorders are actually caused by emotional problems the person with the disorder is dealing with. I don't know if the scientists in England are actually Scientologists or not, but that would be my guess on why they said it was fake.
I do know that when people diagnosed with bi-polar disorder/manic depression are properly medicated, that they start behaving more normally and no longer have these states.
Yes it is. I know someone who was diognosed with it. It really is a real disease.
It is a disorder not a disease. I am not sure is it is real or not, but a lot of people say that they have it.
Yes, it is also known as manic depression. This is a little easier to understand when put in those terms. Meaning: times of mania (very entergetic, unable to sleep) and times of depression (some so bad you can not even get out of bed). These symptoms are also paired with other comorbid symptoms in various cases.
I have been diagnosed bi-polar..after being mis diagnosed for depression. i've been through a lot. In my experience, when you start listening to what people say YOU are then you are going to really start being like that. If you think you are bipolar than you are. Its in your head. Yeah you might have mood swings..but learn to control them. I take medicine and would not be okay without it but i do not consider myself bipolar i am just ME. I allow myself to go by not one lable...my name is maegan and i am me. You are you too. So its a "real" disease if you want it to be.
it is about attention, if you mean that people with bipolar disorder have trouble maintaining attention. they don't have control over some parts of their brains, over some decisions they make.
it is a very real problem, not a fake disease. I am assuming that the person you know has been properly diagnosed.
bipolar is a disease...and they can diagnose it from criterion listed in the DSM IV...i have known people with bipolar and in the manic state they can be going for 4-5 days without sleep...it is not something to be taken lightly...then the depression comes so major i had one friend who could not lift their arms to drink as they got that low...medication is very very important and this is a real disease
first of all, there are very few things that other "medical science" can definitively prove by looking at something specific. they have theories too, "syndromes" that are vague. psychology is no different & when you remember that comparitively, it is a young science, we have come very far in undertanding the nature of mental illness.
yes, bipolar disorder is a biological illness. as are most, if not all, mental disorders. there are overwhelming amounts of research which show that mental illness is a result of brain chemistry - not choice. not something that a person can just "get over" -- no more than they can "get over" having clogged arteries around their heart.
people who argue this, at this point are simply not informed.
There is no such thing as bi-polar.Its a politically correct way of pointing out that someone has no social skills.
For example if there is someone that is generally nice or normal and they drink and turn into a complete a**hole, you would have just recreated "bi-polar" disease. Give them some drinks and i bet the same results will happen. There are happy drunks, mean drunks, funny drunks, and when they are sober they are just as normal as anything.
I believe it is a way for people to explain inappropriate behavior in otherwise normal people. Like having a secret side of you that you can't express openly. Otherwise cross dressers and actors would fall right into these categories. The guy with the dummy that he throws his voice to would be committed!
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