A Brilliant Madness

             This is his misery, this is his demise, this is his life. Bipolar disorder literally grasps the reins of your life control and all aspects experience a drastic change.
             A pitiful thought, to think that any individual can experience the grief of manic-depression, yet only .5 percent of the world is clinically diagnosed (Turkington 77). Sure, everyone feels the blues at times, it is a basic part of life and even some might have half-seriously considered suicide, but bipolar disorder is different from any brief sadness. It effects the brain, the nerves, and the heart; your body is lost in disease. Bipolar patients are diagnosed by a psychiatrict physician as a severely depressed individual who experiences periods of blunt solemness, next climax to hyperactive and impetuous behavior, and then downfall back to feeling despairful depressed emotions. Manic-depression has several relapses as victims suffer a continuous rollercoaster-like ride of emotions of sadness to extreme hyperactivity. Yet, Bipolar disorder has often been mistaken in the past for other false conditions such as an individual¡s personal weakness. Manic-depression (or Bipolar Disorder) is a chronic, progressive disease due to the brain¡s neurotransmitter¡s failure to fit into special receptors and does not successfully circulate within the brain causing severe emotional distress to a patient; this can be treated by conversational therapy and/or the oral-disgestion of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors or other medications.
             Manic-depression is somewhat easily diagnosed by irregular behavior of a patient. All or a combination of these can be categorized as depression: being emotional, having a drastic change in appetite/weight, sleeping too much/too little, having anger, lack of interest in leisure/sex, lowering self-esteem and self-confidence, having trouble concentrating, being anxious/edgy/jumpy, being restless, having slow body movements, having an irregula...

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