BIPOLAR DISORDER  

Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition which causes severe changes in mood of an individual. Sometimes, they will feel extra excited and happy for something (mania or hypomania) and sometimes, they will feel extremely low and useless(depressed).

 

Bipolar disorder is extremely dangerous for those who think that it will become normal in the future and do not voluntarily ask for treatment and leave it on its own, but the truth is that bipolar disorder is lifelong illness which will stay with them for their whole life, and it can never get normal by its own. Soo many people are suffering from this mental illness and there are many of them who are not aware of it.  

There are some symptoms of bipolar disorder that can help you to figure out if someone is going through this illness, but they do not last for a long time, the fact is that these sudden episodes of changing of mood from extremely high to extremely low mood end after sometime, they only last for an hour or some minutes and they become normal after the episode is finished. 

SYMPTOMS  

DEPRESSED 

• Feeling like you are not worthy of anything. 
• Feeling that you cannot do anything. 
• Getting depressed by everything. 
• Getting irritated by everyone around you. 
• Losing interest in everything that you loved to do.  
• Getting extremely angry on small matters. 
• Feeling like you are losing everything.  
• Having suicidal thoughts and wanting to end your life.  
• Getting thoughts of hurting yourself.  

HYPERMANIA/ MANIA 

• Feeling like you are happiest enough.  
• Reaching to the state of euphoria.  
• Getting enough happiest or energetic to not being able to understand what you are doing.  
• Confused. 
• Extra talkativeness. 

Whenever you feel like you or someone around is suffering from this condition, do let them know and consult with the doctor. They will prescribe you some medications or counselling and you will feel much better after it.  

WHEN TO VISIT THE DOCTOR? 

If you or someone you love or know is going through this condition and they seem worse than before, or having suicidal thoughts, or attempted to suicide before or tried to someone around them than you should visit the doctor and tell them everything about your or their condition so that the doctor or consultant can help you in finding the solution for this illness.  

 

Many people feel shame in sharing mental illnesses and avoid going to the doctor or psychiatrist because they think that people will think that they are mental or they are mad, there is no shame for the cure or treatment of any type of illness, this is same as other illnesses and diseases like fever or insomnia, start making it normal for everyone so that you or them do not suffer alone and hurt themselves and you loved ones by suffering from sudden and unexpected mood swings that you cannot control.  

 

Feel free and easy to talk to your loved ones about your personal problems and do visit the doctor if there is need because you deserve to be healthy and wealthy.