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Originally Posted by JeanieK  Are you speaking of ME diagnosing it? Or a Dr? As for me, that would not be my call. As for a Dr. Dr's prescribe things all the time that are not in the patients best interest. Drug companies push to the Dr's and Dr's push to the patients. It's all about the money honey.
They need to do more testing and evaluating. And as someone else pointed out, the drug companines come up with symptoms, that can be cured by their drugs, then put them on TV with an Ask YOUR Dr. for this medication.
But the problem lies much deeper. We are a spoiled country, we expect to have the government solve all of our problems for us. We expect a pill to cure everything, we expect never to be disappointed or uncomfortable in any way shape or manner. Many people use bi polar as a c rutch to excuse everything they do or don't do.
I have a step Grandson, 19 years old, over 6 foot tall that has never worked a day in his life. He cannot read well enough to fill out a job application or take a drivers test.
All his life he and his mother have used ADHD as an excuse for him not to do his schoolwork or to behave. so this big tall strapping lad will never work a day in his life because he is on SS disability.
Life in the real world comes with hardships and discomforts. Sometimes we just need to suck it up and stop looking for excuses. |
I did put in paranethesis "not you specifically". I was meaning a family member, friend, doctor, whoever. Do you know how many times I've just tried to TALK to someone about what I was feeling and I've been told to "get over it"?
I'm sorry about your grandson and I'm sorry you feel that he and his mom is using that as a crutch and maybe they are. I don't know and it's not for me or anyone else to judge. You know the saying, don't judge until you've walked a mile in their shoes. That kind of applies here. Trust me, it irritates me too when people use their problems as a way to get out of working and all that. I'm 21 and have had this problem all my life and got a job and have worked almost every day since I was 16. I've worked for everything I own, I'm married, work a full time job, then come home, and be a wife there. Right now, my husband is out of work, so I'm working double. In high school, I was going to school full time and working 3 jobs, volunteering at school on my ONLY day off, and was maintaining a relationship. I plan on having children in a couple years and trying to maintain a normal life. I don't want to be this way so I've decided I'm doing everything I can to avoid having to be that way, but that's just me.
I just wish people would be more understanding... that's all I was trying to get at. I wasn't trying to offend anyone. I've had a couple of "off" days this week and I just opened the wrong thread at the wrong time.
