People are being diagnosed Bipolar because the insurance companies will pay for the treatment?

Question

But other things like Borderline Personality Disorder and other personality issues, they won't because insurance companies feel they are untreatable.

That is why so many people are being diagnosed as Bipolar.

Answer 1

Interesting! Though we will never find a sound mind in the mental health industry to admit this is how they are managing their patient's charts. Makes perfectly good sense, what you are saying.

Does a diagnosis limit what medication a Dr. can actually prescribe or once a diagnosis is made like bipolar, does the Dr. have freedom to use the drugs necessary for the real issue, which might be BPD?

Answer 2

I know firsthand how difficult it is to get a proper diagnosis, and how easy it was for doctors to write me off with a mental-type disorder and want to give me drugs.
It's frustrating and expensive if you believe the doctor is way off track! My insurance didn't cover my going to a specialist, so after suffering and researching for nearly 9 months, I finally paid alot of money out of pocket, got the right diagnosis (it was a physical problem, not a mental one!) and am finally on the road to recovery.

It was as though I was not going to be diagnosed with anything that the insurance company didn't cover! If the insurance company had their way, I would have been given pills for the rest of my life for a mental disorder I didn't even have.

That's really scary, because when you don't feel good, you want relief, and you're in the worst position to try to say no, or disagree.

Answer 3

not true they still will pay for them. It is just they are long term but so it bipolar, that is something you have for rest of your life and have to take meds to stay stable. It is like a lot of therapist do not know how to treat a lot of the disorders, and since the goverment don't even say that mental health is an illness like anything else they have cut the funds that the states get, so the state give the provides so much money, and usually it is not enough for the therapist to go and learn how to treat other disorders. The hospitas have felt that cut too. Bush say it is all in your head, i tryed to get the email address for him from my shrink, but he was not going to give it to me cause he did not know what i might write to them after hearing that. The insurances don't want to cover anything, cause it cost money. So you just need to find a good therapist, and a shrink with an open mind.

Answer 4

Are you sure insurance companies dont pay for a diagnosis of Borderline Personality. I have insurance and I am wondering if that is what has happened to me?

Answer 5

Just think all the money the drug companies make too.