Comments on: My bipolar disorder treatment plan http://bipolarhappens.com/bhblog/my-bipolar-disorder-treatment-plan/ Learn about bipolar disorder, it's symptoms, medication side effects and how to create stability Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:53:59 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: liz rose http://bipolarhappens.com/bhblog/my-bipolar-disorder-treatment-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-1883 liz rose Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:31:22 +0000 http://bipolarhappens.com/bhblog/my-bipolar-disorder-treatment-plan/#comment-1883 Hi Julie - admire you tremendously for the way you have demystified the illness and clarified so much for me by giving info that psychiatrists and GP's just dont want to share - are they afraid we'll "invent" symptoms if we know as much as them - are they simply afraid of sharing their power? There is a culture of superiority in medicine where the doctor poses as the ultimate authority nd the patient is a mere supplicant and treated like a child who needs to be protected from herself by withholding knowlege. Paternalism is rampant even with female doctors who should know better but are educated into this attitude at uni and through what they perceive to be a type of professionalism they need to practice in order to compete with male counterparts. So your sites are Soooooooo valuable bec they cut through to the essentials in a human and humane way and your views are from experience not medical school and text books. Bravo!!! I seem to recall reading somewhere that there is a link between bipolar and multiple schlerosis. Do you know anything about this? I havemany MS symptoms and Bipolar 2. I wish I had known you were thinking of using Zoloft - it has very bad effects on many people and caused a teen boy who is my friend's son to beat her up badly. Somehow i still feel he had a choice to walk away rather than assault his mother who is a fraction of his size and weight but who knows... do medications rob us of free will? Cheerio Liz Rose ( Australia) Hi Julie – admire you tremendously for the way you have demystified the illness and clarified so much for me by giving info that psychiatrists and GP’s just dont want to share – are they afraid we’ll “invent” symptoms if we know as much as them – are they simply afraid of sharing their power? There is a culture of superiority in medicine where the doctor poses as the ultimate authority nd the patient is a mere supplicant and treated like a child who needs to be protected from herself by withholding knowlege. Paternalism is rampant even with female doctors who should know better but are educated into this attitude at uni and through what they perceive to be a type of professionalism they need to practice in order to compete with male counterparts.

So your sites are Soooooooo valuable bec they cut through to the essentials in a human and humane way and your views are from experience not medical school and text books. Bravo!!!

I seem to recall reading somewhere that there is a link between bipolar and multiple schlerosis. Do you know anything about this? I havemany MS symptoms and Bipolar 2.

I wish I had known you were thinking of using Zoloft – it has very bad effects on many people and caused a teen boy who is my friend’s son to beat her up badly. Somehow i still feel he had a choice to walk away rather than assault his mother who is a fraction of his size and weight but who knows… do medications rob us of free will?

Cheerio Liz Rose ( Australia)

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