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Silver Wing · 04-19-2008, 01:31 PM

After reading all that, I have to ask - who diagnosed you with "bipolar depression" and "major depression"? Did you see a doctor? Because I'm sorry, if you've seen a doc and he formally diagnosed you with Bipolar Disorder, then chances are good he also ordered you to take lithium or some other mood stabilizer, which requires constant medical maintenence.

I recognize that you're a little on the young side, but let me offer this bit of advice - Bipolar Disorder is the psychomedical condition du jour, everyone either has it or knows someone who has it... yet a great majority of these people are self-diagnosing. This is more common than people think, especially among youngsters.

If you do suspect you suffer from Bipolar disorder, than you MUST go see a medical professional and be diagnosed. There is no other way to manage the disorder. I'm not a doctor, but I speak from experience, as my wife was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in her teens. After almost fifteen years of mood stabilization treatments and counseling, she has learned how to manage her moods (for the most part) and is not on any medication today. In fact today she's a registered nurse and one of the most rock-solid stable people I know. I sometimes question whether she was bipolar at all or a victim of expedient medical care, but either way, she has gotten her life on track. The point here is that whatever gear was slipping in her psyche, she couldn't fix it alone and had to get help from professionals, which is what you need to do. People can empathise and commiserate with you all day, but the bottom line is that if you don't seek help, you're not going to get it... the doctors aren't going to come to you.

At a bare minimum, go to the counselor or nurse at your school and talk to them about this. Tell them everything, the violent episodes, the urge to cut... everything. Chances are good that you're going to have to go for some kind of evaluation, but in the long run, that is the only way you're going to overcome this. Too many people either self-diagnose and don't seek treatment, using their own diagnosis as a blank-check excuse to act out or be anti-social, or they fear the system and don't want to undergo an evaluation and short-term commitment. You have to weigh the difference, though... what is preferable, spending a few days in a treatment facility getting yourself straight or spending the rest of your life mentally torturing yourself?

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Silver Wing Hungry. Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 478 Points: 6,190.95 Bank: 94,011.12 Total Points: 100,202.07 Donate	After reading all that, I have to ask - who diagnosed you with "bipolar depression" and "major depression"? Did you see a doctor? Because I'm sorry, if you've seen a doc and he formally diagnosed you with Bipolar Disorder, then chances are good he also ordered you to take lithium or some other mood stabilizer, which requires constant medical maintenence. I recognize that you're a little on the young side, but let me offer this bit of advice - Bipolar Disorder is the psychomedical condition du jour, everyone either has it or knows someone who has it... yet a great majority of these people are self-diagnosing. This is more common than people think, especially among youngsters. If you do suspect you suffer from Bipolar disorder, than you MUST go see a medical professional and be diagnosed. There is no other way to manage the disorder. I'm not a doctor, but I speak from experience, as my wife was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in her teens. After almost fifteen years of mood stabilization treatments and counseling, she has learned how to manage her moods (for the most part) and is not on any medication today. In fact today she's a registered nurse and one of the most rock-solid stable people I know. I sometimes question whether she was bipolar at all or a victim of expedient medical care, but either way, she has gotten her life on track. The point here is that whatever gear was slipping in her psyche, she couldn't fix it alone and had to get help from professionals, which is what you need to do. People can empathise and commiserate with you all day, but the bottom line is that if you don't seek help, you're not going to get it... the doctors aren't going to come to you. At a bare minimum, go to the counselor or nurse at your school and talk to them about this. Tell them everything, the violent episodes, the urge to cut... everything. Chances are good that you're going to have to go for some kind of evaluation, but in the long run, that is the only way you're going to overcome this. Too many people either self-diagnose and don't seek treatment, using their own diagnosis as a blank-check excuse to act out or be anti-social, or they fear the system and don't want to undergo an evaluation and short-term commitment. You have to weigh the difference, though... what is preferable, spending a few days in a treatment facility getting yourself straight or spending the rest of your life mentally torturing yourself?