SFJane (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

yep I agree totally. Have you heard the latest in SSRI news? Apparently it interferes with your ability to love long term. The anti psychotics cause brain damage, all the drugs or most of them cause weight gain and a host of other health problems. We are going to have an entire generation of kids become adults with damaged minds, damaged bodies and an inability to process complex stresses or social interactions coupled with life long drug dependency and health issues

rich107s (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

What concerns me with this issue, is how easily it could be used to Force Treatment in the wrong hands.For instance if used as a screening process in the Public School system. We all ready have to Many Children on Unneeded powerful dangerous Psychotropic Drugs.

PragueVlogg (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Therefore, the results of the study would no longer be analyzed solely using biological data (ie., "hard" science data) because the results would be assuming that the participants were honest and accurate about their current state of emotions. Surveys, of course, are not pseudoscience, but are, in my opinion, in a "soft" category of science...one that cannot easily portray the truth. As are all tests of human behavior.

PragueVlogg (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

My guess is that those who defend the bipolar test would answer your question this way: No, the test cannot distinguish between real bipolar symptoms and "normal" emotions (like the ones you mentioned), so we must take a survey of our subjects before testing them to rule out those possibilities.

thewildeman2 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Expert view. Fantastic questions. I am very skeptical of a blood test that claims it can do psycological testing in that form. There are just too many factors in the spectrum for a blood test to be that accurate. Well said!

AnthiaKim (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

good for you Jane,you are a very informative lady! :)....I like your way of speaking in this vid,well done and thanks for the research.I like the use of 'state'as it indicates transient as opposed to a concrete fact.

Mike1977a1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

This sounds like an essentialist mistake, because bipolar disorder is contingent.

psychetruth (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I'll see if I can't get a hold of the actual study and read it. Smells like bullshit to me though. The study conclusion is, "Our studies suggest that blood biomarkers may offer an unexpectedly informative window into brain functioning and disease" That's very non-committal. "our studies SUGGEST that blood biomakers MAY offer..."The study itself was only done on 29 bipolar patients who were probably all already on drugs. Looks like no control group and accuracy was 77 to 85 percent.

SFJane (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

that would be ideal TBF, I like how you said,"she can go with it, instead of fearing her own happiness" I wish people would just get started with that part now. I just use meditation as my home test. I learned that being *high* off life, is natural when you are totally stress free, well fed, in perfect physical fitness hanging out in the woods or a beach, you can just be high on health and inner balance and it is natural, not a diseased state, it is the bliss of the yogi at peace internally

SFJane (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

you are most welcome Oz! :)