or atleast enough people that it would seem to support that

And being bipolar is definitely something that can be acquired

all it is is your bodies inability to produce adequate seretonin

and there are tons of things that can affect your production of the shit

like being vitamin deficient or eating shit you shouldnt be

and seeking activities that reward with high levels of seretonin is definitely one of the outcomes of having such problems

was it serotonin or dopamine

I'm pretty sure it was dopamine

both interact with each other

https://www.livestrong.com/article/175158-dopamine-vs-serotonin/

decent article on it

there are a lot of different substances people are consuming that can essentially make you bipolar I believe

well

this is all a very primitive conception of it

I mean... what is the experience of people with bipolar? do they just have moods waffle for no reason, or are there obvious reasons for it?

E.g. adderalls, add-type stimulants for many work as a type of anti-depressant. They are, of course, *uppers*. For every single "inch" of up there's a related "down" that follows the 'comedown'. It may not be an absolute 1:1, I don't know, but it's enough to change people. If a person gets a prescription to that, it's not highly available, and that person will spend a whole lot less time with a well balanced brain.

comcast that rules out the diagnosis of bipolar disorder

Exilarch - True, I can only make assumptions about bipolar...

it literally is a DSM V criterion that the mood/behavioral changes cannot be explained by a medication effect or withdrawal

I see. I was replying to the 'everyone seems to be bipolar' idea.

well

I don't know enough about true bipolar to make strong correlations, just giving an example of a certain *created* instability that may help explain 'everyone seems bipolar'.

the thing to keep in mind is that psychiatric conditions by default have both an organic and psychologic cause, that is why they are psychiatric and not psychologic or neurologic

Huh, is that right? interesting...

Then of coourse my question is

If not psychiatric, psychologic, or neurologic

so if you look at people with ups and downs in their lives... well, could that be because they are millennials with no hope in life, who then see a glimmer of hope and get all "manic" about pursuing them and thinking their lives might come to something, only to be frustrated and then become "depressed" again?

could it simply be a boom-bust cycle of hope that creates the observed effect of bipolar?

Yes

Certainly.

because I have it on good info that it is

as a bipolar ii person, it resonates

and not that they are magically eating the wrong stuff or taking the wrong pills because we are all just meat bags who are acting mechanically based on the chemicals floating around in our meat

I don't know enough about legitimate clinical bipolar, so I would guess that what you describe is exactly what I meant. You just phrased it way better than I did.

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I hate seeing people talk about mood disorders like it's just reducible to material

"" Chemical imbalance ""

it's only a disorder because it fits the sperg criteria the DSM made so they could simplify diagnosis for the sake of proving to the insurance company that the patient does have a problem and to coddle along the modern idiot psychologists who are far inferior to their 1950s era peers they replaced

better psychiatrists in better days would've had far more subtle ways of describing the workings of their patients' minds

DSM psychiatry is nerfed, just like the modern left/right political spectrum is nerfed to make it extremely simple so idiots can use it

just like in prior decades you might've seen people casually discuss moral philosophy and human behavioral tendencies and historical precedents as a justification for the politics they favor and now you just see retards cheering for !!!Are Team!!!, you see people carrying around that fucking DSMV handbook and its laundry list of disorders as though it actually means something