Courtney Love Bipolar?

stan Says:

Dearest Liz
I shouldn’t even give this article any credence or waste or much of my limited remaining brain function on gossip columns. But here I go anywise since my mood state has been swinging back and forth like one those office toys. You know the one, with the shiny chrome balls all lined up in a row on fish line that click against each other, and give the illusion of perpetual motion.
Is Bipolar being over or under diagnosed? I would have to say it’s the hot DX of our times (I think everyone should want it and experience it! Except that those that actually have it of course, they already know the hell contained within those parameters). I don’t mean to go BIPOLAR on Courtney or any celebrity rag {laughing}.
But let’s just say the criteria for bipolar has changed somewhat over the years without anyone even taking notice. See, that’s the problem with a tools like the DSM4 (and soon to be released new and improved pharmaceutical stock holders/investors and clinical trial specialist written DSM5 {I have even heard a sneaky little rumor from either one of my CIA genetically altered penguin friends, or was that the all mighty mother ship? Not quite sure who it was for sure! But Anywise! The dirty little rumor is that they are planning to add some more numbers to the bipolar diagnosis wheel of fortune chart, So we can be bipolar 1’s, 2’s, 3’s, 4’s, 5’s, and so on {laughing, come on Carol, Spin that wheel} ).
These criteria are always left up to human interpretation of what constituted a manic and depressive event in the person’s life no matter how little subtext stipulations they throw in for laugher and just good old plain fun. Especially since more often than not the clinician seeing the patient will only get to view one or the other or something strange in-between in actuality; if they are experienced and wise enough to clue into what’s going on in front of their own nose. Then the rest is left up to mental health records, genetic markers or family history, patient recollection, and hours and hours of testing and questioning if time or funds are allowed for that type of in-depth diagnostic tool. You might even throw in a brain MRI and PET scan if the Doctor really wanted to be through. In that case you might be able to make an accurate diagnosis maybe 50% or 60% of the time.
Of course now they are diagnosing kids at four and five with bipolar now (which makes me wonder what the frigging criteria are those doctors using? Bad enough, so many bipolar have flushed their medication down the toilet that it’s in a drinking water supply, but they are actually giving little kids these adult brain chemical altering drugs to a under developed or developing brains! This makes “Dr. Strange Love” seem like a fairy tale adventure in the land of feel good). Now let’s add into the mix some severe borderline personality types that may wish to present or chameleon in to the criteria box to shake things up with a little drama passion play. Add in a huge population of heavy Meth users with permanent brain damage that present some of the key features of bipolar/schizophrenia and “BINGO” you can add untold numbers to the data base of prime label makers churning out one diagnosis after another. Just think of all the pharmaceutical profit possibilities within that increased segment of the population would do for our fragile economy {recession what? just invest in drug stocks! {I’m busting a gut laughing now}.
Geez, we might in time have to go back to the common/non common sense approach to diagnostic models. Like on set in from mid-teens to early twenties, Erratic behavioral patterns such as not keeping a job, making major life style changes on a whim, major spending sprees or documented bankruptcies, Number of hospital stays for either manic or depressive episodes, friends or family members that notice dramatic mood swings without drug intoxication. Running around naked in public is always a good one too! Maybe even some direct leaks to the last four or five generations on the family tree. I know these are not sure fire diagnostic criteria either. But until they can place that electronic chip in out foreheads and we can breathe demonic fire out; these are some of the better ones. {Snort laugh}
This isn’t a one size fits all mood disorder. Some have much more or less extremes of mood swings and effects on their abilities to cope with daily living, and some develop systems a little later or earlier than others. But I would think it might be better that a book written by people that have a vested interest in making money off drugs, or Enquirer/TMZ Tabloid diagnostic tools. Now in ending this rant, I must say something personally to Courtney here, even though she’ll probably never read it. Courtney you’re an unadulterated TWIT, there are no drugs; even your heroin and other illicit drug use habits that can help that personal ego quagmire! You are just stuck being half baked you. I do empathize in advance for this reality check I have placed here MS. TWIT. {I think we need to go back to calling it manic/depressive disorder, since bipolar is just too easy to misconstrue, and looks way to good on shiny T-shirts {more laughing}. Those of us with bipolar didn’t get a choice; on the other hand you MS. TWIT have nothing but choices you appear to use to mess up your life. Maybe next time you will stop and think about what you’re saying and who your directing it too. Attempting to elevate yourself above those that have bipolar does not make you a better person I’m afraid. I believe Forest Gump said: “Crazy is what Crazy does”! Maybe you can try a little harder next time around. {Snicker} Amen!
Yours truly
Stan

HS Says:

The sad part is that the illnesses of excess get mixed up with bonafide psychiatric disorders. Witness how long the press followed Britney’s decline with accusations of her not caring or “partying”.

Courtney Love unfortunately fits into the group of celebrities whose clear illness has gotten blurred. She has been publicly psychotic many many times. (Witness her confusion about spellcheck -which actually has EVERYTHING to do with reality!)

It is a shame she sees proper diagnosis as an insult rather than a road to health.