How do you feel about the following quotation?
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It was an answer to a question in the mental health section.
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This is a false statement. Bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and multiple personality disorder (which is a rarity and often misdiagnosed by overzealous psychiatrists) are 3 different conditions.
Mental illness is one of those things where being medicated all the time is a good idea. My mom is a psychiatric nurse and she has dealt with a lot of patients who decide on their own that they don't need their medications anymore. I don't know about your quote. If someone is bipolar, one personality might be a very nice person and the other one might be bent on killing you. The medication is supposed to keep the non-violent personality in control. From the perspective of a fairly reasonable person, I think that being medicated for your and other people's safety is a good idea.
truthfully, it kinda angers me. I don't claim to know about "disorders" but I don't believe that one "develops" for another either with or without meds. I think the mind is strong and if you are satisfactorily educated, then perhaps a person won't need medicine. At least not "experimental" phychotic, antidepressant kinds that, in my opinion, do more harm than good.What year was this book written? Views and or "procedures" concerning mental illness have drastically changed over the course of time.
they are arrogant and don't know what they are talking about. that obviously is rude and unreasonable. it is bad to not get help for any mental disorder, but it doesn't mean you will be crazy.
I am bipolar and do take meds. I live a full and productive live. Not on meds. extreme swings between depression and mania( staying up for days, excessive shopping, gambling, very out control, unsafe, behavior, OMG! I just realized how this could look like multiple personality disorder. Sorry,thought I was totally against quote, but maybe some overlapping things in common that are misdiagnosed.
this is totally untrue. one mental illness does not lead to another. the illnesses you mention are three different illnesses. if you are bi polar, and not medicated, your bi polar symptoms could get worse, but would not lead to another illness. a person who is bi polar usually has three distint personalities, being very depressed, normal , and or very high. this could lead to the confusion that a person has three different personalities, but it is the bi polar illness, and medication, or lack of medication causing these distinct personalities, but it is not multiple personality disorder, but symptoms of a person with bi polar.
Sounds like a total pile of crap to me, thats like saying if you have astma and you dont treat it you will get lung cancer!
I was diagnosed with bipolar 8 years ago and im not medicated and im certainly not skitzo.
Violet
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