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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 736000" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I have bipolar II.</p><p></p><p>I never used drugs. iI neve even drank. Not all people with mental illness do. And not all drug use is due to mental illness. There is peer pressure, shyness (my daughter was shy so she took drugs to be the life of the party) and just curiousity. As parents we often want to think mental illness made them do it.</p><p></p><p>Sometimes this is true, not always. How they behave while high is a drug use symptom, not intristically mental illness. Most drugs cause crazy mood swings. This does not mean much. It can not be interpreted as anything until the doctor sees if this goes on while the person.is drug free.</p><p></p><p>You can try to diagnose a drug abuser still using but as long as he is in drug land there is no way to be correct for sure. You have to treat the drug addiction first. Often once they stop the drugs the mental illness disappears. My daughter is but one example. She has no mental illness and was diagnosed with bipolar while on.meth and cocaine. Twelve years later....no mental illness. Wrong diagnosis. She was high. So she had moodswings then. No more.</p><p></p><p>Sorry but meth and coke .made her see bipolar. Of course. Drugs can make you hallucinate and act schizophrenic as well, especially meth</p><p></p><p></p><p>The only way to know mental illness in a drug addict is if they were diagnosed before the drug use otherwise the person.is not himself. Drug addiction is a complication for almost everything medications for bipolar, depression, anxiety will not work even.if the person just smokes pot. So why bother? Add drugs to.illegal drugs?</p><p></p><p>A clear diagnosis is not possible while one uses nor can anything be helped until the drug use stops and stays stopped. Then diagnose if the person is still not right.</p><p></p><p>One cam certainly try to find someone to diagnose while the person is using but don't be surprised if once the person.is clean the diagnosed mental illness goes away. Drug use causes symptoms of mental illnesses that may be strictly due to the drug use.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Get clean. First priority.</p><p></p><p>Love and light to all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 736000, member: 1550"] I have bipolar II. I never used drugs. iI neve even drank. Not all people with mental illness do. And not all drug use is due to mental illness. There is peer pressure, shyness (my daughter was shy so she took drugs to be the life of the party) and just curiousity. As parents we often want to think mental illness made them do it. Sometimes this is true, not always. How they behave while high is a drug use symptom, not intristically mental illness. Most drugs cause crazy mood swings. This does not mean much. It can not be interpreted as anything until the doctor sees if this goes on while the person.is drug free. You can try to diagnose a drug abuser still using but as long as he is in drug land there is no way to be correct for sure. You have to treat the drug addiction first. Often once they stop the drugs the mental illness disappears. My daughter is but one example. She has no mental illness and was diagnosed with bipolar while on.meth and cocaine. Twelve years later....no mental illness. Wrong diagnosis. She was high. So she had moodswings then. No more. Sorry but meth and coke .made her see bipolar. Of course. Drugs can make you hallucinate and act schizophrenic as well, especially meth The only way to know mental illness in a drug addict is if they were diagnosed before the drug use otherwise the person.is not himself. Drug addiction is a complication for almost everything medications for bipolar, depression, anxiety will not work even.if the person just smokes pot. So why bother? Add drugs to.illegal drugs? A clear diagnosis is not possible while one uses nor can anything be helped until the drug use stops and stays stopped. Then diagnose if the person is still not right. One cam certainly try to find someone to diagnose while the person is using but don't be surprised if once the person.is clean the diagnosed mental illness goes away. Drug use causes symptoms of mental illnesses that may be strictly due to the drug use. Get clean. First priority. Love and light to all. [/QUOTE]
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