Brain on the Fritz -- HAWMC 7

 Say WHAT!? What’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve heard about health or your condition?
Where did you hear it and what did you think?

Well, lots of options here! I think I'll leave the anorexia comments alone this time, as anyone could think them up--from s/he just needs to snap out of it to it's all about the fashion industry to it's purely a result of undiagnosed food allergies to no one with  anorexia really has food allergies, they just cut everything out and end up with oversensitive systems, which situation reverses if they're crammed with bland and calorie-dense pabulum for months... OK, so I mentioned a bunch.

But perhaps the most surprising thing I heard about bipolar disorder was actually at an ED treatment center, and said by a psychiatrist. The fact that he said the exact same thing about PTSD makes it even a little more suspect to me. He said bipolar disorder consists of seizures in the brain. That the brain simply goes on the fritz and causes the bipolar behaviors. I'm not sure how that plays out when bipolar behavior consists of being depressed for a year; I guess it's easier to see when someone's charging around being manic. It's true, some of the medications most commonly used for bipolar disorder were initially classified as anti-seizure medications. But that doesn't mean seizures are all they treat (think taking aspirin as a blood thinner, and many other examples).
The part of this that makes me chuckle is that this psychiatrist eventually said to me, in exasperation, "You just need to stop doing crazy things!!"