What’s Wrong with Britney?

About 2 million adults in the U.S. have bipolar disorder, formerly called manic-depressive disorder. The onset is commonly age 20-28. Cause is genetic. Denial by the patient is common. The mania part is fun so patients do not seek treatment; the depression part leads to self-destructive behaviors including substance abuse. Physicians frequently miss the diagnosis. The treatment of bipolar disorder is Lithium for about 10 cents a day.

Thank you to Newsweek for giving an excellent synopsis of the ???3 day involuntary commitment???. It is one of society???s best methods to get help to people who truly need it. They are the people who a lot of the times, do not even know they need help. They are simply much to sick to be able to figure it out on their own. In many cases, these people have either suicidal depression, bipolar or a form of schizophrenia.

That???s what I had in 2002 when I was placed on a ???3 day involuntary commitment??? in the state of Colorado under the similar Colorado laws there.

I was committed because I was ???a risk to myself??? at the time. I was administered the drug Zyprexa and it worked incredibly well. It stopped the loud, nonstop, command voices in my head and the intense paranoid delusions running through my mind. At the time, I thought I was being controlled by a top-secret military satellite in the sky. It is hard to believe that the mind can get so sick like that and play such tricks on people.

I was given the diagnosis of ???depression with psychotic features???. Since then my diagnosis has been revised to ???schizo-affective disorder??? which is a severe form of bipolar with psychotic features. Basically it is a mix of bipolar and paranoid schizophrenia. It is some pretty rough stuff and I am not one to scare easily.

As a way to compare it to other things you might be more familiar with, I also have a shattered C-5 neck vertebrae from a high school football accident, which still gives me chronic pain.

I also had Lyme disease for 6 months and was using crutches before I was hospitalized for two weeks and given intravenous antibiotics to cure it.

These two things are ???fresh walks in the park??? compared to S.A.D.

This ???involuntary commitment??? is one of the best things which ever happened to me in my life. I now am able to live a pretty full and productive life by taking my medication every day (Zyprexa and Lithium).

You hear others here pooh-pooh this medical device and psychiatric diseases which require it.

That???s because they have never had the disease and never had the lock-down.

Hopefully this procedure with help this lady out and help awaken her from her living nightmare.

Jimmy Stevenson

Thank you to Newsweek for giving an excellent synopsis of the ???3 day involuntary commitment???. It is one of society???s best methods to get help to people who truly need it. They are the people who a lot of the times, do not even know they need help. They are simply much to sick to be able to figure it out on their own. In many cases, these people have either suicidal depression, bipolar or a form of schizophrenia.

That???s what I had in 2002 when I was placed on a ???3 day involuntary commitment??? in the state of Colorado under the similar Colorado laws there.

I was committed because I was ???a risk to myself??? at the time. I was administered the drug Zyprexa and it worked incredibly well. It stopped the loud, nonstop, command voices in my head and the intense paranoid delusions running through my mind. At the time, I thought I was being controlled by a top-secret military satellite in the sky. It is hard to believe that the mind can get so sick like that and play such tricks on people.

I was given the diagnosis of ???depression with psychotic features???. Since then my diagnosis has been revised to ???schizo-affective disorder??? which is a severe form of bipolar with psychotic features. Basically it is a mix of bipolar and paranoid schizophrenia. It is some pretty rough stuff and I am not one to scare easily.

As a way to compare it to other things you might be more familiar with, I also have a shattered C-5 neck vertebrae from a high school football accident, which still gives me chronic pain.

I also had Lyme disease for 6 months and was using crutches before I was hospitalized for two weeks and given intravenous antibiotics to cure it.

These two things are ???fresh walks in the park??? compared to S.A.D.

This ???involuntary commitment??? is one of the best things which ever happened to me in my life. I now am able to live a pretty full and productive life by taking my medication every day (Zyprexa and Lithium).

You hear others here pooh-pooh this medical device and psychiatric diseases which require it.

That???s because they have never had the disease and never had the lock-down.

Hopefully this procedure with help this lady out and help awaken her from her living nightmare.

Jimmy Stevenson

sounds like Skd500 has been placed in custody for Mental Health issues before and resented it. The reality is to be placed on a 5150 or any mental health type custody has to be displaying really bizarre behavior No cops or nurses want to deal with the paperwork unless it is really obviously necessary. If you can keep your s*%$ togther for a 10 min conversation they wont be able or willing to hold you against your will. This is reserved for the nuttiest of the nutty.

sounds like Skd500 has been placed in custody for Mental Health issues before and resented it. The reality is to be placed on a 5150 or any mental health type custody has to be displaying really bizarre behavior No cops or nurses want to deal with the paperwork unless it is really obviously necessary. If you can keep your s*%$ togther for a 10 min conversation they wont be able or willing to hold you against your will. This is reserved for the nuttiest of the nutty.

Whats wrong with you????