Apparently Bipolar is Curable?
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Don't believe everything you read. This video explores how to read news that reports sensational and unbelievable results from scientific research, and tries to unpack the report that 1/4 of people with bipolar disorder will achieve optimal mental health. Check out the actual research paper here: www.sciencedir...
It's crazy how the researchers themselves could misunderstand the illness so badly.
Wishing you all the best, I hope you will get to euthymia soon
I would think that anyone with bipolar disorder who is doing a lot better is probably someone whose family is better off financially and can afford to see better therapists and doctors. Those of us on Medicare and Medicaid don’t get very good care.
@@lynnmarieanderson1744 in Germany we do have the privilege of universal healthcare / health insurance but the therapists are still horrible most of the time. So I guess if you want a good therapist here you have to pay for the private ones too. I keep switching between therapists and none of them take any of my concerns seriously, I am kinda sick of them atp. I know that people with borderline, bipolar etc. are stigmatized extremely even by therapists and might not even want to work with you at all. Usually when I tell therapists everything that is going on in my head I can tell that it’s too much for them. I remember when they used to tell me that they can’t help me and I need to find someone else… but who can help me???
Thank-you 😃
It is certainly a 2-tier system, and that is totally unfair. Until the inequity is addressed there will be no care for all. 😪
I'm so sorry to hear that your therapy options are so terrible. There certainly is stigma that affects us. My heart goes out to you 💔
How can people with bipolar disorder get much better when so many of us have trouble getting a good education and being able to keep a job???? I started out being diagnosed with bipolar disorder, later on I received the intensive therapy for borderline personality disorder, now a doctor I saw seems to think I have schizophrenia!!! I’m 53 now and last year my significant other died and I’m also really hitting menopause too. I don’t think it gets better when you’re older, it just changes. When I was younger it was classic bipolar 1, with marked highs and lows, then after I was on lithium for awhile and learned more about managing it, I have more hypomanic phases and it became more of bipolar 2 with more severe depression than the highs. I’m terrified that I might be schizophrenic. I’ve been on and off of so many different drugs, over a year ago a psychiatrist I saw only gave me 2 options, to either have shock therapy or try ketamine. I left him and I’m seeing someone else, but I’ve been taking Trileptal and I still don’t seem very well. I just think shock therapy would totally traumatize me some more, and I was told the ketamine would be something I would sniff and I’d have to be watched carefully for a couple hours to see if I act strange or weird after taking it. Anyhow I am not well, I am very stressed because I’m in a tense situation where it’s possible I could become homeless in the near future. I think what I’m going through would drive anyone crazy. I’m also not getting good medical care, after the pandemic a lot of older doctors and nurses just quit.
I find the journal bphope to be very helpful and educational.
Can people who suffer from bipolar feel genuily happy? When something good happens to them for example. Can they fall in love or do the mood swings control everything?
Yes people with bipolar can feel happy.
And they can fall in love.
Absolutely we can feel all the feelings...but (for me at least) the moods put like a filter over it. When I'm depressed there is like a gray filter that makes everything more dull, and when I'm manic it turns up the colours and makes all the feelings more vibrant. Remember, too, that we have periods of normal mood too. And I fell in love 19 years ago, and am more in love today than ever - through the depression and the mania and everything in between ❤️
@@stigmacrusher that's so beautiful that you still feel in love with your partner, you are so lucky