Author: TeeJay
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 9:40 pm
| rule62 wrote: |
| Glad to read you’re doing a bit better on the new meds. This whole bi-polar thing spins my brain around. Did this exist 100 years ago? I think back then they just threw you in the dungeon if you showed any mental illness. |
It was in 1913 that the term manic depression was first used to describe people who oscillate between mania and depression… so that’s like 100 years ago this year. Some time in the 80s they stopped using the term manic-depression and replaced it with the nicer sounding bipolar disorder.
That story is real sad Rule and it’s always a real shame to hear about a loss that could have been prevented with better care. It’s good that he experienced 25 years of sobriety and relative stability that’s more than a lot of addicts / alcoholics can achieve.
I always found AA more open to people getting treated for mental illness than NA, where some members take the "drug is a drug" idea too far. Maybe I would have done better in AA.