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Originally Posted by Brianna
I don't suppose that is meant to illustrate the importance of a good hairstylist...poor girl. She looks as if someone, a looooong time ago, cared for her. Does anyone really think this girl wanted this for herself???? In the first few mugshots she looks as though this were a 'lark'--isn't she having FUN?! You can see the pics where the disease (for those of you who think it is one) takes complete hold of her. I've seen similar pics of schizophrenics--in one they are obviously healthy, and in the other you can SEE what schizophrenia--despite any blood test, MRI or other "diagnostic" test might or might not indicate--has done to them.
Wolf, you can't believe that you know more than the AMA. How can you not see this desperation?????? You!
There is no definitive test for schizophrenia. The fact of the disease is proof enough. THERE IS NO TEST FOR MOST PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS! Why do we demand addicts prove more than schizo's or bipolars???? If you ask me, bipolars and BPD wreck as much, if not more, havoc.
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Sorry, but I don't see the humor. However, there are test for psychological disorsers. Take for example, the MMPI, the ASI for Addictive disorders etc....
We don't laugh at people who have biological diseases such as cancer. However, when someone who is either not an alcoholic or addictthey do not have much empathy for them. Alcoholism and drug addiction is reconized by the AMA as a biological as well as Psychological illness. You know most addicted people didn't ask to become sick. they just took that first drink or drug and off to the races they went. Also schizophrenia and bi-polar disease are very sad. You combine one of these illnesses with addiction and the hope for recovery is much more limited than your garden variety alcoholic/ addict. I will tell you a story about this young beauty queen she had been diagnosed with bi-polar during her teenage years. Well one night while out having a drink with her friends, someone encouraged her to try crack. T
o make a long story short at the age of 25 after 21 treatments for her illnesses she was found in a dumster in Miami. She had left treatment overdosed and the people just through her in a dumpster. I will never forget that funeral. I don't think I have ever seen so much despair from so many people.