What is Bipolar Disorder: A Deadly Genius Disease

Haifan Hong
Close to Bipolar Disorder
1 min readDec 14, 2019

Bipolar Disorder, a kind of mental health condition that affects your moods, is relatively unfamiliar to most people compared to depression. But in fact, its ability to torture people and the number of its patients has increased.

Bipolar disorder can swing your mood from one extreme to another, people with bipolar disorder are able to have episodes of:

Extremely depression, which may cause overwhelming feelings of worthlessness and can potentially lead to thoughts of suicide.

Extremely mania, which made you feel creative, happy, energetic, ambitious and you may become annoyed easily. You may talk quickly and have difficulty sleeping during the manic phase of bipolar disorder.

According to World Health Organization statistics, the average incidence of bipolar disorder in the world is 2% to 3%, and it can occur at any age, which means 2 or 3 in every 100 people will be diagnosed with it at some point in their life, everyone is equally possible to develop bipolar disorder.

Due to the low level of social awareness of depression and bipolar disorder, patients do not receive much attention and respect. Generally speaking, the lives of people with mental disorders look good to the outside world, and they seem to be calm and calm, but they suffer the pain of being unseen.

As Camus said in The Outsider, “My soul is so far away from me, but my existence is so real.”

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