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kevin
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kevin asked in HealthMental Health · 1 decade ago

Is everyone BI-Polar and ADHD?

Everyone seems to be BI-Polar or ADHD or has something wrong with them.. What's the deal?

Update:

Okay so is Becka Bi-polar or just a druggie? It sounds like an excuse to be irresponsible.. How many guys are trying to get her email right now ? LOL... I think there are BI-Polar people, but i think it's being abused.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Attention seeking.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Becka describes bipolar mania extremely well, far more accurately than most people without the condition.

    People who say "Oh I get angry and have mood swings am I bipolar?" do not have the faintest idea of what it is. Changed states do not involve "mood swings". They involve being stuck in a completely uncontrolled manic or depressive (or mixed) state for extended peiods of time, often months. Rapid cycling (switching between the two) is rare but still far, far more extreme than simple mood swings.

    As somoene (not bipolar) that has had both manic and depressive episodes, they are something you absolutely do not need to question on the internet. They are completely unlike any experience anyone can comprehend without being exposed to them. It's not an "excuse" because people experiencing the condition are completely out of control. You don't think "hey im manic this is a good excuse", because you aren't thinking, you have no ability to judge when an idea is bad.

    ADHD is less extreme, and is a lot more easily confusable, but is still not something anyone who just self-diagnoses it is likely to have.

  • 1 decade ago

    No not everyone is bi-polar or ADHD. My husband is bi-polar and there is a drastic difference between his mood swings and someone elses. People can have normal mood swings but a person with bi-polar will be ok one minute and angry the next at something that didn't even phase you.

    I would advise you to do some research on these mental illnesses to find out more about them and the people that suffer from them.

  • 6 years ago

    I have bipolar which is so hard to live with brought on by traumatic experiences my father being a violent thug I was raped as a teenager and my baby died! Bipolar can be passed on through genes or very traumatic experience

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    kevin did you know that people who are bipolar or have adhd are a lot more likely to use illegal drugs? and lets stop with this "excuse" because if the person wanted to do the illegal drugs then there is something wrong with them in the first place to WANT to do it. normal people dont WANT to do this sort of stuff so we can stop with the simple minded "its an excuse"

    Source(s): 16 years with adhd and bipolar
  • 1 decade ago

    First of all, the quack foreign corporate psychiatrists who "judge" and "label" Americans are here for the money.

    To make the "money" the foreign corporate quack's job is to "label" each and every American citizen as "mentally ill" so they can not only make that "money," but also so they can "control" as many Americans as possible by peddling Big Pharma's brain damaging and mind altering prescription drugs.

    It appears that someone at the top of the "chain" of evil is attpempting to sedate, stupify and mutate the human race with toxic chemical poisonous mind altering prescription drugs.

    Their goal::: We are all to be robots and puppets of "society."

  • No. We are human...we mess up, but I challenge you to marry someone who is actually bi-polar......you will see how wrong you are....one of my children is adhd n autistic ....my daughter who is NOT, is no where near as needy as my son.....

  • 1 decade ago

    i think eveyone has tendancies of things like this but that the actual disorder refers to the severity of the case. i think this is becasue these types of conditions are very hard to define.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No everyone is not. Part of it is that everyone would like an excuse for poor behavior and they think that Bipolarra ADHD is bad behavior so they self diagnose. Thing is people do not realize just how severe symptoms have to be for it to be a disorder and they also do not know the real symptoms. Most people completely misunderstand what these disorders really are.

    Everyone has moods like those of Bipolar Disorder....... because everyone has mood swings, momentary loss of judgment, likes to go shopping, likes sex, feels down sometimes, gets angry now and then and is hyper on occasion. The difference is that all of these symptoms in Bipolar are so intense that they interfere with your ability to function. Think of a pole (biPOLEr) with 0 at the center (0 being normal) and 10 at one end (manic) and -10 at the other (deep depression). Most people have swings but stay within 3 to -3. I have fairly severe Bipolar 1 but since my psychosis is mild I go from -9 to 9.... Also depression that comes and goes is not bipolar but just recurring depression, you have to have mania for it to be Bipolar..... you have to go to both ends of the pole.

    Rapidly changing emotions or becoming angry or sad easily is not all there is to Bipolar. That is just having emotions. People with Bipolar Disorder do not just change emotions quickly, they go through periods of depression followed by periods of mania or elevated mood. Mood affects everything about you.... your energy level, self esteem, sleep patterns, appetite, sexuality, emotional response, judgment, etc..... not just your emotions. And while rapid cycling is possible, it is rare. The average person with Bipolar only cycles two or three times a year. It is considered rapid cycling if they cycle 4 or more times in a year.

    While everyone with Bipolar has a different set of symptoms and a different severity of symptoms, this is what Bipolar is like for me:

    Depression - too tired to get out of bed, shower, even to brush my teeth. Cry all the time, sleep 16 hours a day. Feelings of self loathing and guilt that drive me to think of suicide but I'm to tired to even think about how to go about killing myself. It makes you feel small and worthless and completely insignificant. It makes you think about how big the world is and how meaningless you are in it..... and it refuses to let you have any good thoughts or see any good things.... when you look in the mirror all you see is pain, you don't even see yourself, you don't taste your favorite foods anymore, see that flowers are blooming, whether or not the sun is out, you become so inward that you hardly even notice your surroundings..... You don't even feel love for people anymore.... positive thoughts are just not possible...... it is a deep dark hole with no way out and no light for hope.... and most of all it makes you feel sooooo alone. And even if there were someone who cared about you they would be better off if you killed yourself....... because all you will ever be is a burden....... this can last from a couple of weeks to a couple of years.

    Mania - Way too happy! PARTY GIRL! love drink and drugs. Talk really fast and pressured because my thoughts are going faster than my mouth can keep up with. Hypersexual - like I sleep with strangers and guys I just met on the internet or I masturbate 10 times a day. I once became bisexual because there were twice as many people to sleep with. down load porn and spend tons of money on sex toys. Spending sprees..... I once spent my mortgage money on african violets, yep, $1500 on African violets (then I got depressed and let them all die). Quit my job because I wanted my vacation pay for lottery tickets and I was so convinced I would win that I started shopping and writing bad checks because I'd be rich as soon as the numbers were drawn. Decided that I could replace the furnace in my home by myself... I mean how hard can it be..... Only sleep 2 or maybe 3 hours a night for months on end and never feel tired. In the end I was unemployed, $30,000 in debt, and had almost lost my home, which needed a new furnace because I had removed the old one.. or parts of it anyway. This can last for months.

    I also have mixed states when I am depressed and manic at the same time which are truly the worst... By body and mind are depressed but there is this undercurrent of energy running all the time..... I'm highly emotional but the emotions tend to be negative (guilt and anger) I have intrusive thoughts and urges to mutilate myself (like wanting to stick my hands in the garbage disposal or cooking them on the BBQ), and I also have psychotic episodes where I hallucinate. This is when I am most suseptible to suicide because I am depressed, wanting to hurt myself, and I have the mental energy to plan and carry it out.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    you might want to reevaluate the people that you surround yourself with. most people i know are pretty awesome.

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