Why patients are say­ing ‘I want to be bipolar’ by Diana Chan

Is this an art­icle worthy of its headline?

What? you may well ask after read­ing Diana’s article…

Can Diana tell me how many patients are com­ing for­ward purely as wan­na­bee Bipolar sufferers?

How many actu­ally turn out to have Bipolar Dis­order of these so called wannabees.

How many actu­ally have been encour­aged to come for­ward due to improved aware­ness and if true! thank God as a res­ult of the improve­ments with regards the stigma tra­di­tion­ally asso­ci­ated with being dia­gnosed with a men­tal illness.

How many of theses wan­na­bee patients turn out to have a men­tal ill­ness be it another con­di­tion dis­play­ing sim­ilar symptoms?

For­give me Diana but from your very brief art­icle I could not come to any firm con­clu­sions regard­ing the premis or the rel­ev­ance to the title of your art­icle, sub­sequently neither could I under­stand what you was try­ing to inform me as a mem­ber of the read­ing public.

In fact I ended up being very con­fused as the one case Diana refers to is where she describes a woman com­ing for­ward present­ing her­self as hav­ing Bipolar Dis­order and  as Diana tells us she did con­firm this dia­gnosis at a later date, again what was the point she is try­ing to make, could it be only that she like many other men­tal health pro­fes­sion­als dis­like patients self-diagnosing? big deal!

I would go with the per­son who lives with them­selves 24hrs a day and makes a dia­gnosis, over a pro­fes­sional who as prob­ably spent less than a hour with someone and then comes to a con­clu­sion over a diagnosis!

Diana must be clear when mak­ing her points and using titles which may if taken on there own at best be mis­lead­ing and at worse do a great deal of dam­age to set­ting back the slow pro­gress regard­ing the fight against stigma asso­ci­ated to men­tal health conditions.

We need more people whether ordin­ary or celeb’s to come for­ward and share their exper­i­ences without fear of being ridiculed of their con­di­tion made light of just to fill a news slot or a page in a rag of website.

Please remind me what was the point of Diana’s art­icle in the first place? and what did she actu­ally say that backed up the headline?

 Both the BBC and Diana must have been scratch­ing about for some­thing to say on this day!  Per­haps they need to say noth­ing at all in future if that’s the best they can come up with! 

Why patients

are say­ing 

‘I want to

be bipolar’

Bipolar Dis­order wannabee’s whatever next?

An art­icle definetly not worthy of the headline?

 

As far as I am con­cerned the more with Bipolar Dis­order and men­tal health con­di­tions the bet­ter, per­haps we would get the atten­tion and  neces­sary research & fund­ing in men­tal health care that is well over­due! so bring on the wan­na­bees for me!

Yours back to the campaigning

TBPBMD

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