May 14, 2007

Name The New Bipolar Disorder

Now that the gods of psychiatry have handed us a new form of bipolar disorder--the so-called subthreshold bipolar disorder--I have decided that it needs a better name. None of this SBD shit. So leave your suggestions for what to call this "disorder" which is characterized by not meeting the threshold for hypomania and not having depression at all.

Over the weekend, I caught wind of one writer offering that SBD sounded a whole lot like cyclothymia to him. Not true! SBD is like so totally better! Cyclothymia includes alternating periods of low scale hypomania and low scale depression. But SBD is skipping the depression altogether, so we can focus on people who are chronically productive and medicate them until they put on 100 pounds.

Dr. X's assessment:

"My prediction: treatment will be good for pharmaceutical stocks and will cause patients to gain a lot of weight."

Which will eventually lead to a new disorder marked by obesity and flatlined moods--FFD, or fat-flat disorder.

I'll announce the winning entry for what to call SBD at the end of the week.

Posted by Philip Dawdy at May 14, 2007 12:05 AM
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I think this is brilliant! My gut impulse was QAD or questioning authority disorder. Since my posting became too long for a comment I request that you please see

http://gcic.blogspot.com/2007/05/qad-questioning-authority-disorder-dsjr.html


Posted by: Dr. Black Kitty at May 14, 2007 12:56 AM

Or, PHD - persistent happiness disorder...pun intended.

Posted by: Up and down at May 14, 2007 11:59 AM

How about "Normalcy Disorder?" ND for short.

Posted by: Rose at May 14, 2007 12:12 PM

Rose--

If the cure was a Zyprexa-like medication from Lilly (of Indianapolis), your ND (Indi-anapolis) would be totally appropriate.

Posted by: Melody at May 14, 2007 02:44 PM

How about Popular Personality Syndrome? Pop Syn for short?

Cheers,
Moira

Posted by: Moira at May 14, 2007 03:03 PM

Capitalism

Posted by: Alison at May 14, 2007 04:36 PM

'Feeling Alright' Disorder, or FAD for short.

I do like PHD though.

Posted by: Ruth at May 14, 2007 07:13 PM

I think it already exists:

N.O.S.

Posted by: Stephany at May 14, 2007 07:27 PM

Iatrogenic Bipolar Disorder

Posted by: Lisa at May 14, 2007 08:03 PM

How about "Bipolar Lite" - until it's treated then it could become "Bipolar Heavy".

Posted by: Insider at May 14, 2007 08:31 PM

BP-FATTIE
(Bipolar-formerly a thin talkative intelligent employee)

Posted by: d at May 14, 2007 08:42 PM

PRD

Pharmaceutical Rep Disorder

Bob

Posted by: BOB FIDDAMAN at May 14, 2007 11:16 PM

Re: Insider

Bipolar Light is what they use to call Bipolar III now, which is triggered by taking SSRIs. Slightly different.


I like PHD.


Or even SPHD.
Severe and Persistant Happiness Disorder.


Charmatovitathymia Disorder - recurrent episode, Unspecified


The severe and persistant state of having joy in one's life.

Posted by: christin at May 15, 2007 07:01 AM

FBD- Functional Bipolar Disorder.

FBD-I, Functional yet feels various emotions throughout lifetime.

FBD-II, Funtional yet uses caffeine at morning meetings or alcohol at evening social events.

FBD-III,Functional yet uses caffeine, or alcohol or tobacco at any event.

FBD-N.O.S.,Functional, feels broad range of emotions, commonly called "go-getter", or "Dynamo", "always on top of things", uses caffeine, alcohol and tobacco products by choice,often is independent in thought, and classified as a non-conformist, one who may challenge authority. Most commonly prescribed psychiatric medications by doctors, "who have never seen someone like you." and are not quite sure what normal appears; thus addition of benzos, and anti depressants, and possible anti psychotics, alongside a mood stabiliazer, may bring patient to a more reasonable diagnosis of FBD.

Posted by: Stephany at May 15, 2007 07:08 AM

DUMBASS-$ (Diagnosing Usually Mundane Behavior As Seroquel Scripts $oar)

Posted by: CL Psy at May 15, 2007 07:17 AM

JWYTYWN Disorder (Just when you thought you were normal) -- doesn't trip off the tounge.

NLP - Natural Librium Producer

RTD - Rose Tinted Disorder (be careful meeting new people, saying your RTD they may think you're retarded.)

PNLTD - Psychiatrists Need Love Too Disorder (was going to be "Love and Money", but heck we all know they get the $$$ already.

NPN - No placebo Necessary.

NIRWD - Not in real world disease.

Can you get an Rx for a little sign to be worn on the back saying "Kick Me Hard"?


Posted by: dimmer at May 15, 2007 09:29 AM

LMFAO! I love Capitalism!

Posted by: Bipolar Chica at May 15, 2007 01:05 PM

Normal.

Posted by: Carrie at May 15, 2007 02:01 PM

FUN Disorder.....fatten up "normals"
or

FFUN...FunFatteningUpNormal disorder

http://www.seemlikedagoodideathetime@wordpress.com

Posted by: UM at May 15, 2007 07:34 PM

NDD....Non-disorder disorder

Posted by: UM at May 16, 2007 06:25 AM

Geez, can I choose a name that hasn't already been chosen?

The serious contender:
Severe Spectrum Bipolar Impairment Disorder (SSBID)

The silly contenders:
Ultimania
Acting-out Disorder
IWA (I Want Attention) Disorder
BIPOLAR Disorder (Behavioral Impairment of Preventing Obedience Largely Attributed to Recklessness)
BIPOLAR Disorder II (Big Pharma's Output Leads to Affluent Results)

The other contenders (believe it or not, the following are actually dx's):
Paranoid personality disorder
Schizoid personality disorder
Schizotypal personality disorder
Antisocial personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder
Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder
Impulsive Personality Disorder
Histrionic personality disorder
Narcissistic personality disorder
Avoidant personality disorder
Dependent personality disorder
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder
Self-defeating personality disorder
Sadistic Personality Disorder
Depressive personality disorder

Posted by: Marissa Miller at May 16, 2007 07:44 AM

ESRUP- Euthymic Supposedly Requiring Unnecessary
Prescription. Spelled backwards, it's "PURSE" where the "disorder" actually has its maximal effect.
GP

Posted by: GP at May 16, 2007 08:33 AM

Marissa, have you been reading my medical records?

Posted by: Lisa at May 16, 2007 04:47 PM

Bring on Bipolar Disorder or BOBD

If you "treat" SBD you are bound to get the real thing, thus this name.

Posted by: Sara at May 16, 2007 05:35 PM

"Marissa, have you been reading my medical records?"

Unfortunately, Lisa, your doctor gave me access to your entire file. ;)

Posted by: Marissa Miller at May 17, 2007 12:29 PM

These are great. This new nonsense looks to me like a good time to bring back labeling theory.

SBD- sociology beats drugging.

Posted by: flawedplan at May 20, 2007 01:32 PM

These are all great! The first thing that came to my mind was "Normalcy Disorder" (which someone had already mentioned.)

Posted by: onlylife at May 21, 2007 08:11 AM

BSD: Bull Shit Disorder

Posted by: thememoryartist at May 27, 2007 01:24 PM

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