Quincy Carter has another setback.

[LloydSev]

My girlfriend in fact was just diagnosed with bipolar disorder. It's not fun. And it's tough to try to ignore the stuff she was saying before they could properly medicate her. But that's all it is, a medical condition that can be corrected using medicine.

She practically balled when I shredded her credit cards, because that was her way of acting out. About a week after I had done that, she was in the hospital psych ward because she had gotten so bad (we didn't know she was bipolar till after I took her in to the hospital).

It's tough to think that someone would judge her based upon her mental condition before she was treated.

[babybuck]

Originally Posted by Buckinghorse

"Hypersexuality"....ummmm....maybe I am bi-polar. Or would like to be.......????

I know this is a joke and not only don't find it offensive, I like it. I'm not bipolar, but do suffer from disabling chonic depression and have met bipolar people in therapy - learning a great deal how it affected them.

But while we're in an education mode:

In fact, when treated many people with bipolar disease miss the high stage. They can get a huge amount of work done. This is especially true in creative activities, ie., writing, composition, painting and theoritical science. But also the destuctive behavior: excessive shopping, lashing out at people, physically dangerous activity.

Which leads me to:

Hypersexuality in bipolars is usually very bad news. If you want any sort of relationship, forget it! Safe sex, forget that! Aids and other STDs are likely. So are getting beaten, robbed and sometimes killed.


Excuse the long time on the soapbox, this just hits close to home.

Babybuck

[BuckeyeBaiter]

Lord Jeff all the props in the world for your level of understanding.

[BuckStocksHere]

Originally Posted by LordJeffBuck

You can disagree, but you'd be wrong. Telling a bi-polar patient to stop erratic, impulsive, irrational activity (like drug abuse, spending sprees, hypersexuality, etc.) is like telling a cancer patient to stop growing tumors. Some people (quite a few, actually) refuse to understand that mental illness is a disease, not simply a series of bad choices. When the chemicals in the brain are imbalanced, mental illness results - it is a physiological problem that cannot be overcome by "willpower" or "choice" or "faith in god" or whatever, but rather must be treated medically. Only when the underlying condition (bi-polar disorder) has been successfully treated, can the conditioned activity (drug abuse) then be addressed.

For anyone who is interested in bi-polar disorder, please read the text "Manic Depressive Illness" by Drs. Goodwin & Jamison, two of the leading experts on mood disorders.

I guess now you would be wrong. Faith in GOD can work miracles. Call it "belief" call it "faith" call it "prayer" call it the power of GOD or whatever you want. GOD's will is mightier than all the forces on Earth. I think it can overcome something like bi polar.

Now, regardless of whatever disease.... I will NEVER condone drug use. I don't care what the "excuse" is. My dumb arss did it when I was in 10th grade.... probably one of the dumber things I've done. No excuse.