Both drama and reality
When bipolar disorder hits, it will have an impact on normal social life, even lead to devastating consequences, let Van Gogh cut his ears, let Hemingway shoot himself, and let Woolf jump into water …It infiltrated all aspects of the patient’s life, making friends, romance, career, makes their lives up and down like a roller coaster.
Mentioning bipolar disorder has to be mentioned Even, who played a patient of it in the popular Norwegian youth education film SKAM.
When Even was in a state of extreme excitement during a manic episode, he stayed awake all the time because sleeping is the closest to death, he ran out naked in the midnight, broke into other’s house just for the sudden desire.
He constantly switches between hyperactivity and depression. When depression occurs, he pushed away his lover, saying the frustrated words that “the only way to get something forever is to lose it.”
Another distinct example is Lexi played by Anne Hathaway in Modern Love. When excited, she will dress up like a movie star in the morning to buy peaches in the supermarket. She was described as “Hayworth suddenly walked towards me. ” But when the depression occurred, she completely isolated herself, allowed herself to lie on the bed, and allowed the fruit to rot.
At the end of both, they gave directions for bipolar patients. Don’t be afraid to be frank, and don’t hide yourself. As long as you have the courage to express yourself, you will find that it may not be difficult to find someone who love you as you are.
