BIPOLAR? It's just an old disorder with a new name.?

Question

I think most people are bipolar to some degree. What do you think?

Answer 1

Everyone is mixed up about this. You are right, it is something that all people experience. Everyone gets sad - everyone gets happy. Even moreso - everyone has episodes of mania and episodes of depression.
Those who experience both of these at a level that is uncontrollable without medication (usually lithium) are true to the bipolar disorder. Everyone else only has symptoms. It can be a symptom of a larger disorder. It's not a disease. The uneducated public likes to make labels and turn a noun describing a serious condition into a trite adjective. "How are you today?" "Oh, I'm bipolar" People can be so stupid it makes me sick.

Answer 2

It's funny... When I was diagnosed with Bipolar type II, I read all I could and discovered that everyone shows some signs of it occasionally. Your boss drank too much coffee and is ready to revamp the entire office desk arrangement. Yeah, he's hyper as hell, but not Manic. And, your best friend's mom found out her sister has cancer, stage 4. Yeah, she's bummed out and upset, but she's not depressed. Imagine feeling like your mom died yesterday---FOR NO REASON. Or worse, you start fantasising that your husband comes home and finds you dead, and then practice the right position do die in to reduce the shock. Bipolar disorder is a serious, debilitating disease. Ordinary mood swings are not Bipolar Disorder.

Answer 3

Blue Sky 1994 some 'manic' housewife/ mom married to a secure practices tension officer. Frances Farmer 1982 appropriate to the top-enjoyed 1940's/ 1950's Hollywood actress of that decision who dissolved into psychological ailment alongside with bipolar and schizophrenia. The perceive place in the two is carried out via actress 'Jessica Lange'. The 1982 action image is in black and white. of direction it might prefer to be yet yet another action image too.

Answer 4

no the DSM criteria for bipolar is actually very clear. you must have had a major depresswive episode and a manic episode which includes at least 3 of:
~inflated self-esteem or grandiosity
~decreased need for sleep (e.g., feels rested after only 3 hours of sleep)
~more talkative than usual or pressure to keep talking
~flight of ideas or subjective experience that thoughts are racing
~distractibility (i.e., attention too easily drawn to unimportant or irrelevant external stimuli)
~increase in goal-directed activity (either socially, at work or school, or sexually) or psychomotor agitation
~excessive involvement in pleasurable activities that have a high potential for painful consequences

So no. most people do not come close to qualifying for this disorder. However it was actually called Manic Depressive before it was called bipolar- so I suppose you are kinda right

Answer 5

I believe everyone is moody, but not Bipolar (prevalence is only 2%). Bipolar is quite debilitating. Most people don't walk around feeling uninhibited, invincible, narcissistic, impulsive, and overflowing with energy for a couple of weeks and then sad, suicidal, withdrawn, and tired for another couple of weeks.
There is a difference between Bipolar and moody. That's why I worry about people self-diagnosing themselves with Bipolar because one day they're happy and then the other day they're sad.

Answer 6

I don't know that most people are a little bipolar. I don't really think so. As far as it being an old disorder with a new name, that is absolutely true. It used to be known as manic-depression or manic-depressive illness. Now it is known as bipolar disorder.

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Answer 7

Yeah I think that most are too. It is stress of everyday life and this is a pill world. I am bipolar, but then I noticed so is almost everyone else I know.

Answer 8

no they dont.
regular ups n downs is far differenty to bipolar.
bipolar disorder... moods go from suicidal 2 manic and the person is out of control and suffering.
also called manic-depressive illness.

Bipolar is an illness. and needs to get treated.
Most people are not ill and can live a normal life without
treatment
Very different!!

Answer 9

To some degree.

I think too many people blame little things are some sort of disorder. Only people who cannot function in everyday life should be able to be all "oh-I-have-(insert disorder)"

Answer 10

I believe everyone has up days and down days, but if you get so high and so low that it messes up your life it is a disorder.