What kind of psychiatrist lets you go for months without seeing you?
The kind that finished at the bottom of their class, who opens an office in a strip mall between a Dollar Tree and a liquor store, and who can do insta-diagnoses for all your disability-seeking needs. (*Note, I have no idea wtf "her" shrink is, but "the girl" is not in Lexington, and you knw Big Al hasn't bothered to find a new one local to her, because she'd have to go in for another initial consult who might not buy her vomiting out the stuff she looked up on WebMD as symptoms to feed her victim complex.
Yeah, I think Amber’s housebound lifestyle has made her hyper-sensitive to stimulus in general. Things that most of us might feel “excitement” over Amber interprets as "mania"
She has always overacted, whether happy (her idiotic, wheezing, talking laughs, or her equally idiotic cackling as if whatever it is was the funniest thing she's ever experienced) or supposedly sad (crocodile tears, whining about muh mentalz, vaguevlogging about stuff she doesn't want to talk about but talks about in the vlog, etc.). Thhat isn't bipolar disorder. It's her making sure that whatever attention there is to be had is on her.
I think she does have actual serious mental illness though, just not bipolar disorder! She is also straight up lying about her psych saying her insomnia is due to trauma. If that were the case, the doc would have added a new med, something to help her stay asleep, something pretty gentle at first. However, in someone as obese and breathing-compromised as she currently is with obvious sleep apnea, this could kill her. This is why she didn't get jack shit to help her sleep, and I bet she was told to get a sleep study so she can get a CPAP rx. The psych probably acknowledged her bitching about "trauma" but quickly moved on. Her medications are pretty consistent with someone with borderline personality disorder, I wonder if she is leaving out a diagnosis...
She absolutely does have a mental illness: narcissistic personality disorder. She'll never admit to it though, preferring the self diagnosed bullshit that feeds her victim complex (PTSD, muh depression, anxieteeee, bi-polar disorder, repressed trauma, and whatever else she latches onto). It's like everything else she does: it's always someone else's thing.
For instance: Eric was goin to the strip mall shrink, came away with a bipolar disorder dx. Then Becky goes. Same. Since Big Al can't stand anyone else getting more hugs and asspats than her, she goes, blurts out the list of symptoms, comes back with a dx on a first, initial screening that lasts under an hour. Bipolar disorder is not diagnosed in a single visit. So then she gets meds - even though she professes to hate them - and takes them for a condition she does not have. When she goes off them, of course she spirals down.
Let's take a non-muh mentalz example: college. Eric and Destiny talk about going back to college, and this is mentioned in passing in various vids. What is one of Big Al's bazillion New Year's resolutions for 2020? "Thinking about going back to college." She gets the attention back on her by spinning up the tale of her one semester in school before quitting that like everything else, acting like she was well on her way to a degree, and gets asspats in the comments.
She's a narc and a pathological liar. That's her real muh mentalz.
