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askye at 12:23pm on 11/01/2003
askye at 12:23pm on 11/01/2003CSI pissed me off so bad on Thursday there were no words. I could barely stick around to find out how the other storyline finished. It makes me wonder how other poeple feel when their illnesses end up on the show. I'm wondering if I should cut for spoilers?
One of the cases was the apparent suicide of a bipolar woman, and I was thinking "CSI is a great show, top notch writing, they'll handle this with class." Instead it was sordid tabloid shit. ER did a much better job.
The woman was a rapid cycler, okay, fine. She was violent---all the time, no matter how she was cycling, at least that's how it was told. And you can't sustain that, at some point you have to come down. There was NO Mention of a psychiatrist, at all. Her parents seemed to be in complete denial that she was ill, they never told the police that she had bipolar disorder, until Sarah and Warrick found out on their own. Okay, I could buy that, it's pushing but I can buy that.
They'd rather think of their daughter as "Troubled". And if she's so erratic, how is she holding down a job? Where's her psychatirst? Then they say she's off her meds. And, of course, she's taking Lithium. It's always Lithium, except there are newer treatments for bipolar disorder, anti seziure medications are effective mood stablizers.
Then she has a boyfriend. The boyfriend is bipolar and off HIS Meds, and deluisional. The delusions of godhood.
CSI took the most extreme cases of mania and threw them out there. The worst is how she died. Her parents couldn't get her commited to the hospital because she couldn't be proved a danger to herself or others, because her neighbors were afraid of her (although why the apartment managers didn't kick her out for destruction of propery or press charges is beyond me). So her father, drugs her and slits her wrists, to get her held. But she bled out. Except, she would have only been held for 72 for the most part, it would have come out what her father did and she would have walked out after 72 hrs. OR if she was stablized and voluntarily signed herself in she still could have walked out AMA.
A comptency hearing is something different.
And the way Sara and Warrick acted. Completely dismissive. All they saw were two crazy people.
And I found that offensive. All of it. I was so damn pissed off.
ER handled bipolar disorder better. CSI just senstationalized it.
One of the cases was the apparent suicide of a bipolar woman, and I was thinking "CSI is a great show, top notch writing, they'll handle this with class." Instead it was sordid tabloid shit. ER did a much better job.
The woman was a rapid cycler, okay, fine. She was violent---all the time, no matter how she was cycling, at least that's how it was told. And you can't sustain that, at some point you have to come down. There was NO Mention of a psychiatrist, at all. Her parents seemed to be in complete denial that she was ill, they never told the police that she had bipolar disorder, until Sarah and Warrick found out on their own. Okay, I could buy that, it's pushing but I can buy that.
They'd rather think of their daughter as "Troubled". And if she's so erratic, how is she holding down a job? Where's her psychatirst? Then they say she's off her meds. And, of course, she's taking Lithium. It's always Lithium, except there are newer treatments for bipolar disorder, anti seziure medications are effective mood stablizers.
Then she has a boyfriend. The boyfriend is bipolar and off HIS Meds, and deluisional. The delusions of godhood.
CSI took the most extreme cases of mania and threw them out there. The worst is how she died. Her parents couldn't get her commited to the hospital because she couldn't be proved a danger to herself or others, because her neighbors were afraid of her (although why the apartment managers didn't kick her out for destruction of propery or press charges is beyond me). So her father, drugs her and slits her wrists, to get her held. But she bled out. Except, she would have only been held for 72 for the most part, it would have come out what her father did and she would have walked out after 72 hrs. OR if she was stablized and voluntarily signed herself in she still could have walked out AMA.
A comptency hearing is something different.
And the way Sara and Warrick acted. Completely dismissive. All they saw were two crazy people.
And I found that offensive. All of it. I was so damn pissed off.
ER handled bipolar disorder better. CSI just senstationalized it.
frustrated