Misdiagnosed as bipolar, a story I found

I was reading the bipolar forum and was very upset by someones comments stating bipolar is a chemical imbalance with no cure in response to a post by a new person questioning there need to be medicated. How with no test and no proof at all from medical science whatsoever can anyone tell anyone else they will be sick and need medication for the rest of there lives ??!!!

Check this out,

Hundreds of thousands of children in the U.S. have been wrongly diagnosed with the trendy disorder, argues a noted psychiatrist. And the results can be tragic.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/06/19/mommy-am-i-really-bipolar.html

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Here is one story I found searching online for "bipolar misdiagnosis".

I am a wife, I am a mother, after 20 years of living with a misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder and hundreds of meds that never worked and made my completely psychotic in some cases I am getting better, the numb scared feeling I've always lived with is fading. My husband who Ive known forever always said he wanted the person he used to know back. I was in a bad relationship between the time we first loved eachother and the time we got back together many years later.

For the first time since I was 12 I am able to feel happiness and sadness..bipolar disorder never made sense, not even to the Dr's, but I think once a diagnosis is made no matter how many drs you see they all just assume its correct, I have begged and pleaded for help for years..for someone to find out what was really wrong, everything changed and my life was given back to me on oct 20th..I was not suicidal for any period of time or planning it, just did it, took medication to stop my heart, not 5 or 10 but enough to kill 5 people. Spent 3 days in icu watching myself die over and over again.something happened tho that will forever change my life, they ran so much fluid through me (45 bags to be exact) that they managed to get all of the bipolar meds out of my system, there I was with my life falling apart around me and it hurt and I could feel the hurt. I remembered all of the hurt all at once.

I wasn't suicidal and still am not sure why I took the pills in the first place. I didn't want to die, but I did not wish to be medicated at all anymore. I was sad and alone and hurting but I felt great as a matter of fact, but requested to go to a mental hospital once I was medically cleared. After leaving the medical hospital I went to a horrible bug infested typical mental hospital where they attempted to give me ativan the moment I walked in the door, saw a Dr for 5 mins and he ordered a ton of bipolar meds. I told him this was not the place where I was going to get better and I wished to be transferred. He threatened to put me in the "time out room", told me my voluntary asign in could be turned in to me being comitted for an extended period of time if I did not comply, long story short. I had a heart problem, no one believed me, begged them to call an ambulance or do an EKG, they said I was fine, was rushed back to hosp 2 hrs later after an EKG, and so began my new life.

I went to a different facility after being cleared again, they were amazing. I had a whole team of people, a doctor who sat with me for over an hour and getting a second and 3rd opinion before deciding I have PTSD, was put on very low doses of 3 medicines all at bedtime so I wouldn't feel drugged. Went to CBT groups all day long, aromatherapy, meditation, all of which I would never have gone for before this all happened, I'm not the foofy type, meanwhile, on the outside I was losing my house, had lost my business and my husband was telling me he couldn't let my attempt go and that he wanted full custody of our kids, which I couldnt blame him for, but hurt amazingly bad. I was there for 10 days, he came to see me and meet With my doctors, they explained my condition and he agreed to let me come home when the doctors felt I was ready, a few days later they said it was time, I was sad and scared but ok.

Been more than a month now, I cant begin to tell you how different my life is. I've been going to emdr therapy, I used to be so angry, now I feel happiness and sadness and love and pain. My family all agrees that I am doing amazing and they are so grateful that the numb angry person that I have been for so long is now gone. My husband got his wife back and my babies have the mother they should have had from tthe very beginning. Life isnt perfect, I have good days and hard days, working on repairing damage I have caused, and on loving those who love me, which is still uncomfortable. I put myself in uncomfortable places knowing I will be ok and its getting easier. Stil a huge road ahead, but I am Walkng down it.

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I'm sure this woman was told the incurable chemical imbalance lie along the way as well.

Bi-polar is what they diagnose when psychosis cant be "found". And ADHD doesn't seem attractive. Bipolar can be medicated with a lot of drugs.

Funny. When they start to listen to her she starts to feel and get better. People like this are proof why we still have the old system of forced drugging and false hopes. If people got better the loses would be staggering to those who profit from prescribing pills. EMDR and the like takes skill, and its not something where the patient has to take a buffet of pills for the next 50 years.

Riccola wrote:Bi-polar is what they diagnose when psychosis cant be "found". And ADHD doesn't seem attractive. Bipolar can be medicated with a lot of drugs.

Funny. When they start to listen to her she starts to feel and get better. People like this are proof why we still have the old system of forced drugging and false hopes. If people got better the loses would be staggering to those who profit from prescribing pills. EMDR and the like takes skill, and its not something where the patient has to take a buffet of pills for the next 50 years.

The Latest Mania: Selling Bipolar Disorder www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/1 ... ed.0030185

Kind of explains much of the collateral damage from over diagnosing bipolar, sad how greedy pharma is.

I know everyone gets upset when we are doing stuff like this to children. And in your article the psychiatrist says we are treatiung children for something they don't have, and there are other factors at play here like evidence of child abuse.

But its exactly the same for most adults. They r being treated for something they don't have. A disease (when thy just have truma related [problems) and they are medicated for it. The very same thing is happeing with adults, with some, the same as children, 'parents' are the ones , like stated in the article that are telling the drs the symptoms, not the 'patient', are they true?

I know this is very serious, I got so upset when I heard about an innocent child Rebecca riley who was Killed by psychiatric drugs when she wasn't even bipolar. Shes dead and theres no coming back, how tragic the poor thing.

I don't understand how this society is letting this sort of thing happen? Its just all setting in for me, I alsways knew society and the world wasn't perfect. But when the same thing is happening as in Nazi Germany, except it is way more subtle, it really messes with your head. This is evil and cannot continue.

Just read an article on madinamerica about how the heretics of today are the orthodoxy of the next generation. We need to fight this and maybe our childrens generation will not have a world in wich psychiatry kills children and adults for no reason except to cover up for perpatrators/make money/ have power/be prestigess etc etc.

Devilock wrote:
But its exactly the same for most adults. They r being treated for something they don't have.

look at this,

Sinead O’Connor Announces:
“I’m Not Bipolar . . . I Should Never Have Been Medicated”

One hospital told me that although I don’t have the disorder and shouldn’t have been on the meds.. once anyone starts these meds its dangerous to ever stop. That is not true. It is dangerous to stop suddenly or over the course of a year at least.. this is because of how these drugs affect receptors in your brain. They are the same drugs (some of them) used to treat epilepsy.
When my third child was 5 months old I became distressed over something extremely traumatic that happened. At the time I had not been working for some years and was taking care of the three (as was then) children by myself.. and doing a very good job of it too, even if I do say so myself. I could possibly have been somewhat post-natal but I was certainly distressed because of the aforementioned traumatic event.

Read more http://www.sineadoconnor.com/2013/10/very-good-news-concerning-bi-polar-disorder/

Yeah, I read that, poor sinead!

When I was given my first 'diagnosis'l, the dr said "Well its either schizophrenia or bi polar in this hospital, that's how we start navigating things usually" (to my parents) and my parents happy at getting me diagnosed and discrediting me (that's another story) said "No, she dosnt have bi polar! ha ha ha! no way!" "She must be a schizophrenic!" so I was diagnosed schizophrenic, for turning upto hospital 2 -3 times after a family member called the mh service, I didn't have symptoms except of distress, unhappiness (at being abused by family), ptsd (from witnessing a bashing the yr before), but my parents went in asking for a proper diagnosis and were told its either bi polar or schizophrenia here (as in this hospital) so I was either. The first time I went to hosp they didn't know what to say to my parents because id never been there before and I wasn't having any symptoms excentp crying and wanting to go home so they didn't even bother to officialy diagnose me, they just wrote 'nervous condidtion' because of parents wishes.

Mine really was a case of being railroaded to a 'mental facility' against my wishes by my abusive family. The facility wouldn't even take me, it took my parents months to get me into the place because there was nothing wrong with me, so they wrote letter after letter to the place, went to their local member, got all their wealthy middle class friends to make phone calls, (had some lawyers, judges in there - no kidding!) and eventually I was told to get in the car one day we going to a 'counsellor', that's what I was told so I got in!
Then we're at the facility and they r trying to lock me into it and Im realizing whats going on , theyre trying to do an intake and im getting upset saying I don't want to go in there I want to go home! after saying that in a bit of an upset way I see the lady intaking me write 'passive aggressive' and I say what the hell? how am I passive aggressive? just because I dontn want to be treated here!
My parents, went on to lock me up about 5 times in total, and not one time, was I ever mentally ill, it was usually a parent who would start becoming aggressive and shouting and threaten me with ringing them to lock me up and they in the end usually would ring them, even if id don't nothing. I had witnessed a bashing in the year prior too my first lock up and this is wat they were using as an excuse to say I was mentally ill. I had to be a witness to the police and in court etc. so it was a bit upsetting, but I was not ill. and I didmt need to be locked away!! god no.
Anyway its just been sinking in more and more. There are many ways ppl come into psychiatry abuse /violations, but there is definatley a problem with the way ppl try to scapegoat ppl into being mi and after theyre mi and the way that ppl who are 'blashphemed' (diagnosed) against are treated discustingly, it really is a subtle, insidious practice, which I am coming to believe more and more, is not anything different from jews being gassed to death in Nazi Germany, psychys, are national sociatlists, they r just zooming in on ppl diagnosed with mi rather than all jews etc, nothings changed! Its discusting!@!!
SOrry I've gone on a bit, im in a really angry mood at everything ! I am an innocent victim of psychiatry, I don't know what to call it, but I grew up in an abusive house then I was railroaded into a mental health facility, now my whole family and others believe I am actually mentally ill and its all not true, I want to fight back at the ppl who did this to me! How can they get away with it!?

It just goes to show, if u or someone else is pushing for a diagnosis, its usually going to get done, whtether u have the problem or not, it dosnt matter, u will be diagnosed.