Originally posted by mblahnikluver
I find it a bit crazy itself that these terms are grouped in with the mentally ill crowd.

I have both and was diagnosed Bipolar/Manic Depressive 8 yrs ago. I had something traumatic happen and it triggered the bipolar. Yrs of mental/physical abuse can make one break, mentally. I took meds for about 6mths and my levels balanced out. Most would say I'm crazy with that diagnosis but it's just a chemical imbalance in the brain and once it was set right i felt fine.

My brother was labeled ADHD as a kid and they tried to put him on meds and my mom refused them. He was a hyper growing boy! Nothing unusual about that. Today he is extremely calm and the opposite.

I think there are too many labels tossed around today. There is a disorder for everything now a days. It's a bit ridiculous, just like there's a pill for everything. Its like they want all these disorders to have everyone doped up or something.

My daughter,who is now 14 years old and very smart and socially active,was diagnosed with ADHD in first grade.
My wife decided she needed meds.
Now,my wife is a ECE ( exceptional child educator,fancy word for special ed)
I fought it,but she insisted and we went down that road.
It was not working out and eventually my daughter became old enough to refuse the meds.

She is fine now.

We are over medicating our children for the sake of the drug companies making money,the doctors making money and the parents not having to deal with the problem.

How many people do you now that are on some kind of medication or another for what ever ails them?

Medications are not the answer,dealing with the problem is.
Human interaction and exposure to the real natural world.
Time.There are no quick fixes,let it take care of itself.
When I get sick,which is rare,I am forced to go to the doctor to which all they do is prescribe antibiotics.
I don't take them and I'm fine in a few days.

Ban the meds,not the guns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I never said they weren't! My point wasn't to question whether they were classified or not, but to say if Obama is going to take guns away from everyone classified as mentally ill, then he'll be taking half the guns away from USA. More than one in ten Americans take anti-depressants, some of them don't even show signs of being depressed!

Originally posted by twfau
I never said they weren't! My point wasn't to question whether they were classified or not, but to say if Obama is going to take guns away from everyone classified as mentally ill, then he'll be taking half the guns away from USA. More than one in ten Americans take anti-depressants, some of them don't even show signs of being depressed!

Im all for that, if you are on medications that have homicidal tendencies listed as a side effect then you have no place having a gun.
You seem upset. Either come to terms with it or admit that the diagnosis is being used as an excuse for shortcomings.

I was watching and it said, it would be up to the Psychiatrist to report those who they deem to have violent tendencies, so make sure you don't P off your Psychiatrist!!!! that scares me, one person can hold the cards.
In general I can see reporting those who are truly violent, but there are some messed up dr's out there on ego trips.

I only went to one, once, for anxiety disorder, the doctor was listed as a doctor for adults in my insurance book,
but he was a pediatric doctor. He tarted yelling at me rite off the bat, what was I doing there. I am not a kid.
I said you are in my insurance book listed for "ADULTS" ... He copped an attitude, and when he did the questionnaire, was being very rude, at the end of the 20 min, he told me I was bipolar, adhd, who needed serious medications, then he said scratch that, Im listing you as untreatable!!!

I was not rude to this guy, yet he had me in tears, I was so upset, to be talked to the way he did to me. I never went back to him, and never went to another one. That experience freaked me out!!! So this guy could for all I know report me as violent, when honestly hes the one I would be worried about being violent!!! He was nuts. I must have got him on a bad day or he was just plain nuts...

He sent the report to my regular doctor, who laughed real hard, as he has known me my whole life,and knew none of what was on that report was true, and said next time ask him for a recommendation if I want to go see someone to talk to.

Anyway , point being, this can give some scarey people some scarey power.

I have this phobia of someone robbing me, or beating me with a baseball bat and not have a gun to protect my self. Does that mean I have a mental illness? Lol