Please describe Bipolar?
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Your mood swings run the gamut. You can be happy, sad, or angry or hyper at any moment (and/or paranoid)...and the catalyst for the change can be quite small or simply just a firing off of a synapses in the brain.
Bipolars can have delusions (hearing or seeing things that are not there), they develop a sort of 'bragging' sometimes about how smart or talented they are, in some rare instances the bipolar person can actually develop a sudden talent and they are actually good at it, gosh, there is a lot to say about Bipolar disorder..so perhaps I will stop here..otherwise you will be reading a book on here. LOL
I believe bi-polar is basically going from one extreme to the other - e.g. one moment being very depressed, low and the next being high in mood, manic, full of beans. That is a very basic explanation
Hell!
People with Bipolar experience mood episodes. The episodes last from weeks to months. In most cases, the mood swings to not change from minute to minute or day to day. The mood episodes effect the lives of a Bipolar person very DRAMATICALLY.
For example, when I was manic, I climbed a bridge and told everyone I had the key to the world. I don't remember that, but I was arrested, hospitalized and eventually stabilized.
When I start to get manic, my mind races, colors become intense, sounds crisp, sex is amazing, I think a million different things at once. Its wild. But then it gets scary as I get paranoid and delusional. I think people are attacking me and then I wind up in the hospital.
When I am depressed, months can go by where I can barely get out of bed. I want to die. I can't eat. Nothing seems to help.
Bipolar is serious, but it can be effectively treated with medications including mood stabilizers, antipsychotics, and antianxiety medications.
Bipolar is a disese which people make fun of! My neightbor has it. She is like 16 and my kids are like half her age. She tries to play with them. They tell me that what should they say to her they don't want to play with her. I told them that she was "Bipolar" which meant if she doesn't get her way she will become very angry and have like a tanrum except get so mad and take it out on my kids. I tell them to leave her alone. Bipolar people either be nice to them or leave them alone!
My boyfriend is Bipolar. He yells, jumps up and down, rages, braggs about how he has influence over millions of people, talks nonstop for days and days, gets no sleep for days and days, calls strangers from the phone book to advise them that Jesus is coming again, says the stars are moving and stays like that for about 2 weeks. Then he gets depressed for about 5 months. Then it starts all over again.
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