Posted by Quintal on April 28, 2007, at 21:38:06
In reply to Using Bipolar as a 'fill in the blanks', posted by linkadge on April 27, 2007, at 9:07:10
I had this problem myself with pdocs, but here in the UK they seem to look on most of the fads and trends in the US with scepticism. I have been diagnosed with bipolar II and treated with mood stabilizers. They worked because one of my major problems is stormy emotions, which they calm. So am I bipolar afterall? No, according to my last pdoc who overturned the diagnosis made by his predecessors - because a person who can take nearly every class of antidepressant in the pharmacopoeia without a mood stabilizer and not suffer a single manic episode is very unlikely to have bipolar disorder. Conversely, in people for whom the main problem is stormy emotion (people with strong *Borderline Personality Disorder* traits) SSRIs are probably among the most effective mood stabilizers due to their flattening and blunting effects on emotion. Stormy emotion is not bipolar disorder.
Q
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