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I'm not even sure what you mean. I was just trying to understand why he was telling me all this stuff about MRI's.

A psychiatrist isn't going to give you an MRI.

They are going to ask what's wrong with you, and based on that, give you want you want.

You have no genuine idea as to what you want. Right?

Tell me what you want.

by 3xpRess94

Alright, I read it. So are you saying that an fMRI would be better to test for bipolar disorder than a regular MRI since the fMRI detects the blood flow?

I'm saying to you that your grandfather doesn't "believe" in mental disorders because he has been around the block, met thousands of people, some with life debilitating mental illnesses, and he doesn't want you to take the path of medical institutionalism, because you are young and can probably bounce back.

Which is true, bipolar is an old persons disease, generally, not all the time, but you will see with most illnesses that failing immune systems, and irreversible lifestyles due to stubbornness and primarily ignorance lead some people towards permanent decline.

I am just giving you the basics so you can understand where you so faithfully and trustingly are about to place yourself within the cogs of the medical mental illness triage.

Hopefully you can see for yourself. Mental illnesses are real, and it has everything to do with the brain.

You are not running optimal. Well. sorry buddy, but you are not going to get high grade brain food from the medical profession, which has a long history of laying people, peacefully to sleep. "Do no harm, minimalize damage." Those are the creedos. They are most certainly not, "let's dope this 16 year old kid so he's running at optimal athletic and mental performance." (okay so maybe there are exceptions with riddalin and so on, but with bipolar, my guess if you get a diagnosis, you are going to get worse, due to the drugs, before you get better.)

Do simple things, like start tracking your blood pressure, to your different moods. Maybe you can find a correlation between different effects.

When you are hypomanic, do you find you are hypertensive as well?

When you are depressed, are you slouching, is your blood pressure low?

These are things that will take hundreds of doctors visits over your lifetime to figure out. My supposition.

So, you want to run optimal. Be your own doctor and start taking your health seriously.

Hey, if the docs give you meds, bonus, but based on what your grandfather is telling you, he doesn't think you are going to get the good stuff. Only my opinion.

Chris Rock's Health-Care Story

http://www.thedailybeast.com/videos/2010/04/10/chris-rock-talks-health-care.html

Times could be changing. But you best go into things with your eyes wide open.

I just told you,  want to know if I even have bipolar disorder or not. It's not like I want to have it or anything. It would just be cool to know if I'm dealing with regular depression or maybe something extra...

I've been continuing the conversation that began from the first time I quoted you.

Clicking "this post" shows you which post they're replying to.

But I'm twenty years old and I'll be twenty one in four months. And it's not a matter of wanting, I am going to be a professional producer and dj before I let myself be consumed by some disorder that I might not even have. The assurance that I am just allows me to move forward with confidence and accomplish all my goals I have planned.

Yes, you have it. Are you satisfied?

Greatem, this one for you...

Nothing says bipolar quite like a 16 year old hopeless boy running head first into the grinder.

What do you really want? This is your one and only life. What do you want from it?

That is what you be discussing when you meet with the professional who will asses your brain. What do you want?

How could you be sure though?

Lol, had no clue you could do that. But right now, I'm about zero percent sure. So I don't know.