"Why are you acting so bipolar?" "Wow you're bipolar, you can never make up your mind." "Yeah she's crazy, it's like she's happy one minute and upset the next. So bipolar" Image Credit : https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Teatro.svg/2000px-Teatro.svg.png The quotations above are statements individuals come across every day. Either they hear it from another person, say it to another person, or they are told one of the statements by another person. Each statement seems like something okay to say, right? In fact, most of you reading those probably didn't see an issue at all.
Being "bipolar" is much more than just a mood. An individual who is bipolar suffers from a disorder that is a mental disorder characterized by periods of elevated mood and periods of depression. These periods are not just minutes, hours, or even days. They can last up to weeks, even months of either a really high state which is mania, or a really low state of depression. To get a little personal, I know a few individuals who have this, one being myself. Hearing people act as if being bipolar is nothing or as if it makes a person crazy, not only upsets me, but makes me wonder why it is that I have to experience it. People have to come to realize and learn that the words they say really can affect people. By gaining knowledge on this specific mental disorder, you may save a tear from someone who experiences bipolar disorder instead of producing a thousand just because they were not in the mood.
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