When rich people are tired, they're sick. When poor people are tired we're crazy and dangerous.

Yesterday I mentioned that it's the working poor, the lowest paid people in our society, who suffer from depression the most.

This morning I awoke to Oprah's low energy dilemma as reported on Good Morning America.

Turns out, when Oprah or Leslie Stahl from 60 Minutes have low energy, they've got thyroid problems or anemia. When poor people get tired, they've got depression that's costing our nation 36.6 billion per year. In other words, when the rich get sick, they're victims of illness, when the poor get sick, we're stealing, oh, uh, and setting fires too.

If Oprah goes to a doctor and complains of tiredness, yet not depression, they check her thyroid, and diagnose thyroid problems. If a poor person has a thyroid problem, he or she gets labeled bipolar.

So the question is, why aren't Oprah and Leslie Stahl labeled bipolar? After all, they just reported the symptoms of both clinical depression and bipolar disorder/mixed episode on Good Morning America?

I guess the answer is, they don't want to be bipolar even though they have the symptoms.

But then, aren't rich people who get tired crazier than poor people who get tired? After all if Oprah is tired, she can go to a spa or get a massage. If a food service worker is tired, they can call in sick to work, get fired, get evicted and become homeless, and thus the poor have much more incentive, and many more sane reasons to work when tired, uh depressed.

What is society really doing with these psychiatric labels?

Do you have one, and if so, has it helped you, or hurt you?