Subthreshold Bipolar Myths
Sep. 13th, 2008 12:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
semiotic_piratePeople have been arguing for years now whether medication induced hypomania or mania is actually a case of triggered bipolar disease. Medications that can induce various levels of mania would make a very long list indeed. Many are anti-depressants of many stripes, also known inducers are steroids like prednisone, thyroid medications and medications that are taken for Lyme disease, TB and HIV/AIDS. In other words, a lot of shit can induce various levels of mania.
Did a little research into the general take on this topic and discovered that all the people that are quoting subthreshold BP as a problem are MISQUOTING a study that came out and was then retracted... because there was no scientific evidence that subthreshold BP exists or that if it does, that is needs to be treated with medications like BPI and BPII.
Here's my recommended reading list (mostly written in 2007 when this storm was reaching maximum surge levels on the shores of the WWW): Furious Season's take , the report from PsychCentral and first one post then a follow up post on Clinical Psych Blogspot.
And as Clin Psych asked: "Preparation of [the] article was supported by AstraZeneca.” As my astute readers know, AstraZeneca makes Seroquel, which is one of the “appropriate” treatments in this study. How does a company support the preparation of an article?" Again, this is the article that retracted and redacted itself after everyone had latched onto the original version.
Did a little research into the general take on this topic and discovered that all the people that are quoting subthreshold BP as a problem are MISQUOTING a study that came out and was then retracted... because there was no scientific evidence that subthreshold BP exists or that if it does, that is needs to be treated with medications like BPI and BPII.
Here's my recommended reading list (mostly written in 2007 when this storm was reaching maximum surge levels on the shores of the WWW): Furious Season's take , the report from PsychCentral and first one post then a follow up post on Clinical Psych Blogspot.
And as Clin Psych asked: "Preparation of [the] article was supported by AstraZeneca.” As my astute readers know, AstraZeneca makes Seroquel, which is one of the “appropriate” treatments in this study. How does a company support the preparation of an article?" Again, this is the article that retracted and redacted itself after everyone had latched onto the original version.
