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If you have this kind of problem in your life honestly you shouldn't need a magazine article or an advertisement to tell you what it is, just a friend at most, if you haven't noticed yourself. After realizing you have such a problem, it obviously should be treated, sure. But by drugs, necessarily? It's not like your body has some chemical imbalance resulting from an at all scientifically understood physical disability. That the imbalance is even "unnatural" in the sense that it's the result of an improperly functioning body or brain, is purely theory, and is only held by Some doctors anyway...... Others believe that any changes in your chemistry that may be observed are a regular accompaniment to changes in your emotions, which in turn are the regular result of your exposure to life experience. Different people learn different ways of looking at the world and, with that, different ways of responding emotionally. As with anything learned, misunderstandings can occur. Instead of subjecting yourself to drug-induced zombification that your likely corporate-owned doctor sees fit to diagnose you, believing that at least that way you can Control your disfunctionallity, even if you have to live with it and pay money for it for the rest of your life; there is another option...... You can consult a professional psycho-analyst to help you figure out where in your outlook you may have been going wrong, with inapproriate emotions resulting. If you believe in anger-management, if you believe in trauma recovery assistance, if you believe that sometimes people develope destructive patterns in their ways of thinking without realizing it and could use some help sorting through that, there's no reason why bi-polar disorder, especially mild cases, can't be explained and dealt with in the same way. Actually Dealing with your problems instead of burying them with a drug psychosis is hard work. But it might be worth it.

January 18, 2010 - 3:09pm

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