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How was bi-polar disorder diagnosed? And how were the responses monitored and diagnosed?

The following youtube clip shows that disorders such as this have actually no basis for diagnosis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b30iwhEw9ho

so it would really be quite revealing how this "disorder," if indeed it exists, is diagnosed.

Here's an interesting, if not revealing, read:

https://cchr.org/files/17652/Bipolar_Facts.pdf

Gerry

Gerry,

Is it your contention that mental disorders don't exist at all? I'm talking about anything that used to be referred to as "moodiness" or "a blue spell" or "madness", etc.?

I know that many people disagree with modern psychiatry (and I'm generally in agreement with many of those arguments) but I do believe people really do suffer from mental disorders that need to be addressed in one way or another.

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I am of the impression that there could be some "real" mental disorders. But how can we tell? As those in the anti-psychiatry movement would like, what tests are there -- blood counts, blood or brain chemistry, electrical conduction, etc.? As it is, they're all judgment calls of the psychiatrists. And who are they to judge? (To find out, watch The Thud Experiment https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kq-7uvVOoyk )

Aren't behavioral quirks something that arise from upbringing, with diet, exercise and work ethic playing parts? Why then should they be managed with drugs? (Then again, why should even "real disease" be managed with drugs, instead of just enhancing our body's natural response to the problem?)

Some examples (just my own ideas):

Depression - stop thinking of onesself and find out what one can do to help others. Or work. I think depression is just some extreme form of self-centeredness. Altruism should be the cure. I would also consider some nutritional deficiency or imbalance here and consider B-complex, lecithin (for choline) and protein.

ADD/ADHD - a disease??? To me, just children lacking physical activity. Engage them in active play, or physical work (build a tree house or something), and their need for physical activity will be satisfied, instead of being expressed as "ADD/ADHD." For sure, there might be some nutritional problem, too, like chocolates, sugar, and the like.

I started a list of links about the anti-psychiatry movement in our Links section:

https://www.medscitalk.com/ftopic27909.html

Gerry