turns out they did ( 4 ) , so how do they get around this and imply that Dapakote does prevent mood swings ? They invent the phrase ' mood stabilizer .' That ' s a bit like you trying to sell a car that doesn ' t work but , to imply that it does work calling it a ' driving-car .' You haven ' t said it works , you ' ve just given it the name ' driving-car .' That ' s fair isn ' t it ?
Mood swings in babies ?
Children are now being diagnosed with bipolar So the huge pharmaceutical juggernaut that is Abbott Laboratories didn ' t just market their new drug product ; they marketed a whole new condition . Suddenly the world and his dog are now being diagnosed as bipolar . And it gets scarier . The ' old ' manic depression had almost never been diagnosed in people under twenty one but now ' bipolar ' - the new , trendy kid on the block is being diagnosed in children , children as young as one have been prescribed antipsychotics and that , given all the side effects , is not funny and is not right , even in the upside down world we live in . Of course pregnant woman should never take Dapakote because of multiple risk of birth defects ( 5 ) but crazily , some marketeers have even recommended in-vitro scanning for bipolar disorder to see whether foetuses have the condition ! Considering that most people are diagnosed with BPD from filling out questionnaires I ' m not sure how unborn babies could be diagnosed ( presumably they ' d then be ' signed up ' onto meds immediately once they were born ) ( 6 ) . You know , there really should be a name for compulsive diagnostic obsession . CDO anyone ? So if you have been wrongly diagnosed ( by however convincing and esteemed an expert ) with this once rare illness in its new , re-branded and now hugely financially rewarding guise does that mean there is nothing wrong at all ? How we medicalized being human Not necessarily . This isn ' t to say that people branded as bipolar don ' t have emotional problems . They very likely do . Their emotional difficulties are what perhaps led them to seek help in the first place .