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Mental Health (Expert Forum)
Crying Disease
Answered by
Roger Gould, M.D. - Mental Health, Wellness
Questions posted in the Mental Health forum are being answered by Dr. Roger L. Gould, author of the Mastering Stress and Depression program and affiliated with the UCLA. Department of Psychiatry. Topics covered include anger, attention deficit disorder (ADD) , bipolar disorder , dementia , electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) , learning disabilities, memory, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) , panic , personality disorders, phobias , post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) , schizophrenia , stress , transitions, and work problems.
Crying Disease
by geyser, Jan 22, 2001 12:00AM
I'm researching some geneology and found a relative(man), with crying disease and wondered what the technical name was. Is it in fact and disease? Apparently the doctor say the disease could have swung the other way and been laughing disease, adding that it was better to be the afore mentioned.
Doctor's Answer
by Roger Gould, M.D., Jan 25, 2001 12:00AM
, Jan 25, 2001 12:00AM
Nobody has heard of a pure disease like this so I don't have a technical name for you. It is possible that what is being described is a rapidly cycling bipolar depression.
Some question about it Please give the answaer
(1) How this disease happen to humanbeing
(2) What will be the last cure of this disease