I have bipolar disorder, which is a mental illness that causes periods of depression and mania.
I appreciate you sharing that with me. I realize it may affect how you live your life. I'm in social work and may have to deal with clients that may have that as part of their life, as well. Could you tell me more about it?
Bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder, previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder that causes periods of depression and periods of abnormally elevated mood. The elevated mood is significant and is known as mania, or hypomania if less severe and symptoms of psychosis are absent. During mania, an individual behaves or feels abnormally energetic, happy, or irritable. Individuals often make poorly thought out decisions with little regard to the consequences. The need for sleep is usually reduced during manic phases. During periods of depression, there may be
of the slanderous nature of psychiatric labeling that affected her reputation and threatened her very existence in the world. She believed that her depression was due to grief and feeling broken. She said, "When you have been told that your mind is unsound, there is a kind of despair that takes over..." In "The Loony Bin Trip", Millett wrote that she dreaded her depressed periods:
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Millett disputed diagnoses and labels like manic depression (bipolar disorder) and schizophrenia,