bipolar 1

[clambake]

he should see a doctor at the hotel california.

[mrsmaalox]

Not all doctors charge the same and I know for a fact that there are ones that are significantly less.

The county hospital I worked at charged $5 per clinic visit for those in need. But they saw a different doc each time and it definitely wasn't a Stone Oak-esque waiting room Again, it's all there if someone chooses to be responsible for their health.

[JoeChalupa]

pics or it didnt happen

[silverblk mystix]

I just remembered that it was in another thread, having to do with religion, that Big Zak said he didn't have much time left here.

I now realized we were debating with Jesus Christ himself....at least in his own mind.

All kidding aside, I would normally just recommend stripping down to rid yourself of attachments-which are the basis of all suffering, but when it involves medication I guess I couldn't pretend to know anything about that.

[ashbeeigh]

The county hospital I worked at charged $5 per clinic visit for those in need. But they saw a different doc each time and it definitely wasn't a Stone Oak-esque waiting room Again, it's all there if someone chooses to be responsible for their health.

You would hope. Texas seriously lags behind when it comes to funding mental healthcare, whether it be for youth or for adults. Did you happen to read the article in the Express News a few weekends ago? They estimated that the spending per capita is something like this:

National per capita funding for mental health services: $103.53

Texas per capita funding: $34.57

Bexar County: $13.28

Source: Center for Health Care Services

Here's the whole article. It's depressing to say the least. http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/loc...age=6#storytop

[phxspurfan]

The county hospital I worked at charged $5 per clinic visit for those in need. But they saw a different doc each time and it definitely wasn't a Stone Oak-esque waiting room Again, it's all there if someone chooses to be responsible for their health.

$5 doc visit?? Where do I sign up?

[PakiDan]

pics or it didnt happen

I can toe-tally vouch for Joe... he is minus one appendage.

[lil'mo]

what a genius, brilliant play on words mexidan.

please remove that ugly cow from your signature, she is making me sick. yeah. thanks.

[marini martini]

You would hope. Texas seriously lags behind when it comes to funding mental healthcare, whether it be for youth or for adults. Did you happen to read the article in the Express News a few weekends ago? They estimated that the spending per capita is something like this:



Here's the whole article. It's depressing to say the least. http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/loc...age=6#storytop

Thanks Ash!!!

[phyzik]

I REALLY almost made a post making fun of your religious furvor Zak.... I was EXTREMELY tempted... even now I still am....

Take the meds.... religious beliefs can only go so far in the REAL world... (yes, thats a backhanded comment.... I couldnt resist )

[gospursgojas]

Ive read the 5 pages of this thread and Im not sure if this is for reals or a joke but....

I have been struggling with Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia for years now and in just the past month I have finally been fortunate enough to land a job with a decent company with decent benefits. So I am actually excited to see a doc and get the help (meds) I need.

What Im trying to say is, if you got the means...use them. Get on the meds you need. And good luck in whatev decision you make

[koriwhat]

You offered an extremely strongly worded opinion (your shrink is nuts) without valid pretext or any kind of educational background, and making a "vague" statement about whether or not a person should continue taking psychotropic medication is only slightly better than telling someone they don't need to take their dialysis medication. Individuals with bipolar disorder are a suicide risk. They behave in unpredictable, often menacing ways when they are in the mania stage of the disorder. It essentially frees their mind of action-consequential thought.

You get your panties in a bunch when someone bashes an Apple computer without using one, and yet you think it's okay to comment on medical issues when you haven't even taken a single class in Psychology or general medicine? Are you really that stupid?

you assume... that's all you do. you assume i have no background with this subject, not a good assumption at all.

don't point fingers, ya know. btw, i suggested he stay on the meds in the first place, never did i tell him to go cold turkey and deal with it.

don't get your panties in a wad!

[BadOdor]

you assume... that's all you do. you assume i have no background with this subject
!

You are a male secretary with no high school diploma. I'd love to hear what kind of background you have in the area

[Veterinarian]

I may be talking out my naive, "we're the good guys" ass, but this isn't a shade of gray. I don't expect every country to like the US and we are not saints. But this is anti-American. He's making the case for an attack. I couldn't get through all of it.

I wasn't alive in 1973. President Bush was snorting cocaine around that time. Who is Osama bin Ladin attacking? What does he hope to accomplish with the attack? To kill Americans. To do exactly to us what he thinks was done to him. He'll become a freedom fighter when he liberates his people from state-sanctioned religion. He'll be a freedom fighter when he allows women to walk the street. He'll be a freedom fighter when he allows actual schools in his country.

When his rhetoric becomes about FREEDOM and not about KILLING AMERICANS!

Only after he does all that will I even answer the question about him being a freedom fighter. We may have been asking for a punch in the nose, but this is not the man to deliver it. To live under him as a ruler, like Hitler before him, would enslave and opress many, many people and turn fantasy and theory into the word of God.































































On a personal note, YOU!

[koriwhat]

You are a male secretary with no high school diploma. I'd love to hear what kind of background you have in the area

keep throwing insults and i'll keep ignoring your questions. thanks for playing the game dip .

[Cry Havoc]

you assume... that's all you do. you assume i have no background with this subject, not a good assumption at all.

don't point fingers, ya know. btw, i suggested he stay on the meds in the first place, never did i tell him to go cold turkey and deal with it.

don't get your panties in a wad!

And you have posted absolutely nothing that makes me regret or second-guess that assumption at all. You, yourself, have not even refuted the statement directly.

Sorry. I guess it's silly of me to expect you to post knowledge that you have on a subject when it's asked for by the OP, instead of keeping it tucked away under your bed while you blather nonsensical diatribes about the corruption in the system. In light of this new evidence, you sound like an incredibly educated person and I am illated to hear what you have to say. Please share with us your extensive knowledge of Psychology and alternative methods of treatment that bigzak might procure, Dr. koriwhat.

[CavsSuperFan]

I think it is hysterical that there are pages of advice on treating bi-polar disorder…Like that is a real medial condition….

[koriwhat]

Please share with us your extensive knowledge of Psychology and alternative methods of treatment that bigzak might procure

you first, Dr. CryBaby.

[Cry Havoc]

you first, Dr. CryBaby.

Dr. koriwhat, folks. He'll be here all week.

[phxspurfan]

I have been struggling with Agoraphobia for years now

Dude I almost had that...but it turns out I just had AlGore-a-phobia





:shudder

[koriwhat]

Dr. koriwhat, folks. He'll be here all week.

CryBaby, do tell your background in psychology/psychiatry and your experiences in the field. i'm still waiting to hear from you, i mean, because you're mr. knowitall and love to shoot me down whenever possible but it doesn't seem like you have much to add to this thread either. so, please, what's your background in psychology? psychiatry? bi-polar & anxiety disorders, etc...? do tell mr. knowitall.

[Cry Havoc]

CryBaby, do tell your background in psychology/psychiatry and your experiences in the field. i'm still waiting to hear from you, i mean, because you're mr. knowitall and love to shoot me down whenever possible but it doesn't seem like you have much to add to this thread either. so, please, what's your background in psychology? psychiatry? bi-polar & anxiety disorders, etc...? do tell mr. knowitall.

For what it's worth, I don't even enjoy calling you out, but when you, or anyone else, posts uneducated babble that has absolutely no bearing on reality, I don't mind ridiculing you for it. The OP is attempting to make a serious life decision (albeit asking for help on SpursTalk isn't a bright move), and your response is, "Hur hur, ur shrink is gettin' paid. Maybe he should do his job better." It's lunacy. You know nothing about the situation, and even if you did, you obviously have no educational background to be commenting with any kind of authority.

Perhaps the reason you feel I'm "shooting you down" so much is that you have such a talent for posting your opinions everywhere? I mean, you act like it's just me that ridicules you or states you make stupid posts. Newsflash dude... all of SpursTalk thinks this.

To answer your other question, I have a bachelor's degree in Psychology and am currently in the process of getting a master's, with a focus on counseling for personality disorders among adolescents.

Now then. You were saying?

[koriwhat]

For what it's worth, I don't even enjoy calling you out, but when you, or anyone else, posts uneducated babble that has absolutely no bearing on reality, I don't mind calling you out for it. The OP is attempting to make a serious life decision (albeit asking for help on SpursTalk isn't a bright move), and your response is, "Hur hur, ur shrink is gettin' paid. Maybe he should do his job better." It's lunacy. You know nothing about the situation, and even if you did, you obviously have no educational background to be commenting with any kind of authority.

Perhaps the reason you feel I'm "shooting you down" so much is that you have such a talent for posting your opinions everywhere? I mean, you act like it's just me that ridicules you or states you're a bad poster. Newsflash dude... all of SpursTalk thinks this.

To answer your other question, I have a bachelor's degree in Psychology and am currently in the process of getting a master's, with a focus on counseling for personality disorders among adolescents.


Now then. You were saying?

please show me where i told zak, "hur hur, ur shrink is gettin' paid." , i don't remember saying that at all. now, i did generalize the field and say it's corrupted, which it is, in the fewest words i could.

btw, i could care less if all of ST likes me or not, likes my posts or not. it's not a in' popularity contest i'm shooting for.

here, to add fire on an already burning bush, i used to deal with anxiety and panic attacks daily due to my overuse of lsd back in '97 & '98. not until late '98 did i seek professional help in which i was referred to a counselor here who thought eating tacos with me was somehow "counseling". he then referred me to a psychiatrist who saw me for a mere 2 seconds and wrote me a prescription for effexorXR, kolonapin and something else i can't remember. i probably spelt all those bs drugs wrong but oh well.

anyhow, 5 yrs later and still nothing helped curb my anxiety. i ended up reading a bunch at that time about said subject and researching what i could on my own. my only solution to my problem was to dive back in head first. ongos were the solution and 6 yrs later, not 1 panic attack or anxiety.

now i didn't and don't have bi-polar disease and i wouldn't suggest someone to just go cold turkey as you've so kindly try to act like i have. all i am suggesting is that maybe zak should seek other counsel and see if they can help him out. i am also standing by my claim that psychs today are in it for the dough and that the field is bs. i will stand by that until proven otherwise.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

please show me where i told zak, "hur hur, ur shrink is gettin' paid." , i don't remember saying that at all. now, i did generalize the field and say it's corrupted, which it is, in the fewest words i could.

btw, i could care less if all of ST likes me or not, likes my posts or not. it's not a in' popularity contest i'm shooting for.

here, to add fire on an already burning bush, i used to deal with anxiety and panic attacks daily due to my overuse of lsd back in '97 & '98. not until late '98 did i seek professional help in which i was referred to a counselor here who thought eating tacos with me was somehow "counseling". he then referred me to a psychiatrist who saw me for a mere 2 seconds and wrote me a prescription for effexorXR, kolonapin and something else i can't remember. i probably spelt all those bs drugs wrong but oh well.

anyhow, 5 yrs later and still nothing helped curb my anxiety. i ended up reading a bunch at that time about said subject and researching what i could on my own. my only solution to my problem was to dive back in head first. ongos were the solution and 6 yrs later, not 1 panic attack or anxiety.

now i didn't and don't have bi-polar disease and i wouldn't suggest someone to just go cold turkey as you've so kindly try to act like i have. all i am suggesting is that maybe zak should seek other counsel and see if they can help him out. i am also standing by my claim that psychs today are in it for the dough and that the field is bs. i will stand by that until proven otherwise.

Just because your a pussie with calf tats that cannot handle reality without panicking doesn't mean . You have had an experience with a single shrink and you think you can make generalized claims about the profession?

If he gave you effexor it was because he thought you were really ed up. Regardless, depression and general pussy disorder are not the same as bipolar at all. You give a bipolar effexor and it amplifies their manic phases. All of the mood stabilizers with the exception of lamitrogine have the opposite effect of effexor. You ever seen anyone doped up on lithium after a severe manic episode?

Basically your little story only tells us that you are a pussy that has ZERO personal knowledge on the subject.

[koriwhat]

Just because your a pussie with calf tats

wow, taking things a little personal huh? btw, does it make you feel like more of a man here at ST because you too can use the "puss(ie)" and "calf tats" thing instead of actually talking to me? too in' hilarious and too in' predictable.

You have had an experience with a single shrink and you think you can make generalized claims about the profession?

oh, that's right, because you know everything? you only know what i tell you but assume away.

btw, i know plenty of people who are dealing with bipolar disease and the corrupt system that sees dollar signs instead of actually balancing these people out. i also know people who are complete pathetic losers who would rather claim bipolar disease and get medicated than deal with their problems and if a shrink really cared, he would know who's for real and who isn't and wouldn't just write prescriptions, right?

If he gave you effexor it was because he thought you were really ed up.

answer me this then, how could that doctor know anything about me back then if we never even said o to each other? i mean, you know everything, right? answer that one smartass.

Regardless, depression...are not the same as bipolar at all.

i never claimed they were so why are you getting all pissy about this? there's the bandwagon, jump on up!

You ever seen anyone doped up on lithium after a severe manic episode?

nope, but i know a dude who isn't bipolar who was diagnosed as being bipolar and was all doped up on lithium. come to find out yrs later the dude was just gay and was depressed he couldn't come out. wow, his shrink nailed that diagnosis!