Don't believe ALL of that.  It's the doctors who are padding their wallets with nonstop patients and their "chronic ailments that need prescriptions monthly".

Are you aware of all of the drugs that are not filtered before going into city water supplies?  How does that make you feel that someone had a prescription, their body didn't metabolize it so it was either urinated or pooped into the sewers, not filtered before released into the water supply and then some water supplies down river picking those drugs up and passing them to their users.  It happens!

Serious amounts of Valium show up in many rivers and quite a few fish species are losing their regular behaviors like evading bigger fish/spawning properly because of this?

but to elaborate what i wanted to say is that i feel like there are more and more people feel to be "entiteled" to have some kind of mental disease so they can go on and feel sorry for themselves. but i am not trying to say the diseases don't exist at all.

i am not sure what you trying to say with that. but i agree that it is good business for doctors to treat patients weather they need treatment or not.

but to elaborate what i wanted to say is that i feel like there are more and more people feel to be "entiteled" to have some kind of mental disease so they can go on and feel sorry for themselves. but i am not trying to say the diseases don't exist at all.

Being Seriously Bi-polar I, I can tell you that when you are manic, that it's like being on recreational drugs.  I know because i experimented with them in my early 20's.  I'm in my early 40's now and when i'm seriously manic, it's like being on shrooms or acid along with extasy along with some sort of upper. (I didn't try every drug when I was younger but i'm sure one of them is like how I can get.  I actually think that my extasy use made my bipolar much, much worse...I didn't abuse it like some people do however I did enough and seeing how a manic episode works, the two looks so related its scary).  When manic I make bad decisions, I say stupid things, the more I don't sleep and when you're manic, it's impossible to sleep, the worse I get.   I have my GF take my keys to my car and I exist on anything I can make in the toaster or microwave because i've almost lit fires while using the stove and forgot to take something off that was on a burner.

Strangely enough, some of the dumber bi-polar people purposefully go off their drugs so that they force a manic episode to make themselves feel good.

When I am depressed and thank god that the medication I am on now keeps me from going seriously depressed anymore, the feeling of self loathing, of hatred for how you feel is so bad that you literally want to kill yourself.  Yes, it can get that bad.

NOW, that being said, most people are a> not bipolar b> not seriously enough bipolar that it explains their problems.  I know a ton of people who explain someone's mood swings are being bipolar which is absolutely not right.  I believe that there are tons of depressed people but those feelings of depression are psychologically caused by their environment and such, not physiological like bi-polar and clinical depression are.  Clinical depression can be caused by a drop in endorphins...the main chemicals in your brain that make you feel good.  A long term drop in endorphin production can and does cause you to be depressed...even without situational problems.

The statistics say that like less than 5% of people show any type of bi-polar like mood behaviors and a very very very small portion of those are seriously bi-polar (Bipolar 1 like I am.)   Most of the people you see and hear about are just making excuses for their behvavior.  It's easy to use BP as an excuses because its extremely hard to PROVE you're BP or not like alone which level of BP you are  I, II or Cyclothymia.

If someone is saying they are BP to explain some sort of thing they did, I doubt that BP was the reason in almost all the cases.  Most BP people I know want as few people to know about what they are capable of.  Being out of control is embarassing.  It's not as bad as being 90 years old and shitting the bed but it's not much better.  For me I am a control freak when it comes to my behavior so the loss of control on a manic episode makes me suffer immensely.  To limit the damage of these episodes, I know when I am starting to go manic so I batten down the hatches and put myself in a good position to limit the damage to my life.  

These other people talking about how they when BP and mental?  Sorry....they're either a> lying b> idiots for not managing their condition c> a small chance that they don't have a support system/system of making sure they're safe until things calm down.

You seriously believe half of depression and bi-polar cases in America?

Also...I do not even get headaches!