Posted on 11/04/2014 1:49:26 AM PST by SMGFan
Seems as long as she takes medication and has therapy each week she will be fine. I wish her the best. I hope we all learned from Robin Williams . I wish her well.
"I was diagnosed bi - polar and manic depressive so I'm on medication and I'm seeing my psychologist and pyshchiatrist weekly so I'm fine :D" https://twitter.com/amandabynes/status/529551925008551936
A blazing flame that is rapidly burning out. The only way you survive as bipolar and manic-depressive....is a very limited lifestyle, no alcohol, no life-style drugs, and the medications that the doc prescribes. It’s best to pack, go off to rural Idaho, and just limit yourself to simple pleasures.
so I’m fine... Obviously playing the game. One sick individual.
i hope she tweets her little medicated head heart out.
B3st of luck to 5his beautiful young lady who seems to have her act together better than most her age. I hope that she can enjoy a reasonably normal life, and reach her full potential. Most of that depends on her self-discipline.
All a bipolar needs is Lithium, clean living, and cognitive discipline.
When Williams was on his eds he was a Bush bashing lib scumbag. I like him off his meds better.
You have absolutely hit the nail on the head, pepsionice...just wish it hadn’t taken me so long to learn this.
Bipolar disorder, also known as bipolar affective disorder (and originally called manic-depressive illness), is a mental disorder characterized by periods of elevated mood and periods of depression.
It is over-diagnosed. Many or even most of the people diagnosed with it, do not have it. Others self-diagnose it, because it is “trendy”.
(Zimmerman et al., J Clin Psychiatry 2008;69:935-940)
(Patients were interviewed with the SCID (Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV, the psychiatric manual)).
“The interview was done blind to the results of their response on the questionnaire of whether they had been previously diagnosed with bipolar disorder. And we found that fewer than half (43.4%) of the 145 patients who reported that they had been previously diagnosed bipolar were diagnosed bipolar on the SCID.
“We asked about all four possible variations of bipolar disorder: bipolar disorder type I, bipolar disorder type II, bipolar disorder NOS (not otherwise specified), and cyclothymic disorder. We were even willing to diagnose as bipolar NOS those patients with hypomanic episodes that were shorter than the DSM-IV requirement of 4 days. So I believe we made a real attempt to capture all the patients with any version of bipolar disorder. And yet, we still found a very substantial rate of over-diagnosis.
“Some psychiatrists consider patients with antidepressant-induced or substance-induced hypomania to have bipolar disorder — we did not include such patients in our category of bipolar disorder NOS.
“One problem is the clinically important potential for overtreatment, and the consequent overexposure to side effects of mood stabilizer treatment. Another potential problem is the degree to which some individuals, once diagnosed with bipolar disorder, cling to the diagnosis, and get very invested in it. They start looking for the “magic” pill.”
Her actions reminds me of my sister.
We are heading close to our 30 year anniversary of HELL.
We dropped her off at rehab AGAIN last night.
I am 90% convinced that she suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder.
I do not wish this on anybody.
It is incredibly sad to watch someone struggle with their mental illness, more so when its in such a public way as this young lady.
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