Comments on: Most Depressing Headline of the Day http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2007/05/15/most-depressing-headline-of-the-day-2/ A blog about mental health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:55:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Joe http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2007/05/15/most-depressing-headline-of-the-day-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1957 Joe Wed, 16 May 2007 15:19:56 +0000 http://trouble.pwblogs.com/2007/05/15/most-depressing-headline-of-the-day-2/#comment-1957 Persons receiving treatment for a mental illness speak of having received the "prophecy of doom", i.e. too sick for too long to get any better. Is the following foreseeable? A psychiatrist says to his patient, "Let's see you have been in treatment since you were six months old and you are now five. I fear you are not going to get any better and will have to accept the limitations associated with your chronic mental illness. Oh, do you have enough medication?" Persons receiving treatment for a mental illness speak of having received the “prophecy of doom”, i.e. too sick for too long to get any better. Is the following foreseeable? A psychiatrist says to his patient, “Let’s see you have been in treatment since you were six months old and you are now five. I fear you are not going to get any better and will have to accept the limitations associated with your chronic mental illness. Oh, do you have enough medication?”

]]> By: susan http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2007/05/15/most-depressing-headline-of-the-day-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1956 susan Tue, 15 May 2007 23:39:04 +0000 http://trouble.pwblogs.com/2007/05/15/most-depressing-headline-of-the-day-2/#comment-1956 Liz, I was at a NJ convention of Social Workers last week, as an exhibitor for NJ DBSA. I had a social worker come up to me and tell me about two clients she had that were bipolar. One was a child about 3-4, and another was an infant. I would love to know the criteria they used for determining how an infant is bipolar. Thanks for finding this article. Liz,

I was at a NJ convention of Social Workers last week, as an exhibitor for NJ DBSA.

I had a social worker come up to me and tell me about two clients she had that were bipolar. One was a child about 3-4, and another was an infant.

I would love to know the criteria they used for determining how an infant is bipolar.

Thanks for finding this article.

]]> By: Kent http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2007/05/15/most-depressing-headline-of-the-day-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1955 Kent Tue, 15 May 2007 22:22:52 +0000 http://trouble.pwblogs.com/2007/05/15/most-depressing-headline-of-the-day-2/#comment-1955 "The early evaluations may help find the illness" - hopefully they won't find it when it's not even there. I heard someplace that Albert Einstein might have qualified as autistic by today's standards. Ansel Adams, too, had some kind of severe psychological problems when he was a child. I think either one of those two individuals would have probably ended up much worse off had they been born in these times than when they were. “The early evaluations may help find the illness” – hopefully they won’t find it when it’s not even there. I heard someplace that Albert Einstein might have qualified as autistic by today’s standards. Ansel Adams, too, had some kind of severe psychological problems when he was a child. I think either one of those two individuals would have probably ended up much worse off had they been born in these times than when they were.

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