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@Robert_Edwardly @f0x @GoyGirl @graf rofl I never thought it was. it's just if you're gonna armchair diagnose somebody you might want to have some idea of the shit you're diagnosing people with (unless your goal is to come across as bitter and provocative for no reason)

bpd and bipolar aren't even close to each other and the symptoms that are common between them cover a vast range of regulation disorders with extremely different etiologies. it's about as useful as saying a dog "looks like it could be a german shepherd or a shihtsu" (I don't respect the diagnoses themselves either so arguing their finer points isn't gonna matter to me, it's just that you only showed you don't understand the labels you yourself are trying to use (which is funny because you claim to have some professional training in it))

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@ajax @GoyGirl @Robert_Edwardly @graf >bpd and bipolar aren't even close to each other and the symptoms that are common between them cover a vast range of regulation disorders with extremely different etiologies. it's about as useful as saying a dog "looks like it could be a german shepherd or a shihtsu"

Well put, lol'd. Nigger swept the floor while watching mentally ill people get mistreated. At best an orderly. Aka worse than a nurse, somehow.
Unpopular opinion/hot take, whatever: fully 75%, if not more, of "mental illness" is physiology.

By that, I mean you're eating some shit food, taking some shit pharma/OTC/rec drug/booze, wreaking havoc on your blood sugar, BUUUT - yes - human interactions are physiology-affecting, too. At least 80-90% of it is within our control beyond teen years, even the human aspect.
Had some counselor admit once that they were also finding anyone whose personality might've clashed with, say, their fundamentalist boomer parents' expectations... was often being mislabeled as bipolar by late teens/early 20's.

It was just cycles of anxiety about trying to be/find themselves amidst parents who didn't accept them, & occasional "depression" at process, or to fit in more. Hmmm 🤔