I'll bet most of ya'll have seen the acronym BAD that stands for Bipolar Affective Disorder. Today may have been the first time I've seen it. I guess of all the deseases in the world, it's just fitting that I inherited this one.

I guess I could have inherited Frequent Arthritic Renal Tendonitis FART. Of course I made that one up.

Or this one Self-Monitoring, an*l Retentive Toad SMART. And I made this one up.

I was reading about a guy with Bipolar today and he said he's vanilla now that he takes his meds. I also feel vanilla on lithium. But it's much better than going from the tip top extreme chocolate, with chocolate syrup, peanuts, sprinkles, glazed walnuts, reeses pieces.......all the way down to a bowl full of packing peanuts (styrofoam).

Yeah I'm BAD ...and I really like my vanilla

HI,

Are you BAD NOS? I think that is my poc bills for that. He's wrong.

See wikipedia:
296.80 Bipolar disorder NOS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-IV_Codes

Vanilla is good but I have dreams about the walnuts, chocolate syrup, sprinkles . . . Sometimes I have vanilla and the rest at the same time. It's a mess.




M

YEP, THOSE ACRONYMS CAN BE ANNOYING!! Also ironic! Like someone who is oppositional is ODD ... Believe me, I just retired after five years as a Disability Claims Adjudicator for Social Security, and the amount of acronyms that the medical professionals use are WAY excessive - like OOB - 'out of bed'. It took me awhile to figure out a few of them, but reading medical records all day makes for a very interesting job . Boy, I can sure tell you some stories....

Off topic, sorry I never liked acronyms .

We're ready! Start those stories whenever you want.

Mari,

No NOS, Bipolar I disorder, most recent episode manic
Severe without psychotic features

Dear Curly,

I don't remember. I think sometimes the dx'es get modified -- after a while the pdoc could add a secondary dx or "down grade" the dx" by getting rid of the psychotic part.

M.

Interesting thoughts.

I never have seen the list. Thanks for sharing it.

Donna

Jude

I would love to hear the stories too.

Donan

Hhhhaaaaaaaa ! Great way of starting my day !!!!!

I bet I'm something like BAD ODD LOL

Another day, another time....busy housecleaning today for my sister's visit tomorrow. We moved in here in mid-April, but she's almost three hours away.
I'll have to study up on how to post pictures in my posts again...bizi, anybody??

Hmmm, I know what BAD is now, and ODD, but LOL...Lunatic On Lithium?

Ha-ha, jes kidding?