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Bipolar Disorder, the Silent Killer

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Living with Bipolar Disorder there someone in your life that you suspect has Bipolar Disorder? If they exhibit extreme mood changes from depressed to hyper and very active they may be candidates for a Bipolar Disorder investigation. These traits can happen within in hours of each other or days or months. If left undetected Bipolar Disorder can cause extreme harm in people’s lives and the possibility of hospitalization or even death. Because they see no way out and they “just don’t want to feel the pain any longer” many people with the disorder abuse drugs, sex, gambling or smoking. They want to “numb the pain” so bad they turn to anything for temporary relief. There is hope and with the proper diagnosis people can have a much better quality of life. There are many things people can do to stop or lessen the pain and mood swings that come with Bipolar Disorder. Some things that can help are, proper medication, exercise, cognitive behavioral therapy, discontinuing the use of mood altering substances and support groups. Everyone will have their own personal journey and their journey will be unique but similar to others with the disease. The following section is a journal entry of one person in a sea of people that has had struggles with the disease. Hopefully you will gain some insight into the disease and the pain and struggles that come with it. “Dear Bipolar, You are really a jerk, do you know that? I hate you. It does not seem fair that you are in my life. I did not ask for you and I don’t want you. You are no good for me; you cause me hardship and suffering. You have really messed up my family life in so many ways and helped cause me to have very little self esteem. Of course my parents did not help that process either. Why do you taunt me with the manic stages when you know that all they are going to do is fart me up the next day? I hate how you drag me down for no apparent reason and then limit me to sleeping for 24 hours straight. I do not like the fact that you cause me to be unproductive and lower my self esteem. You make me feel like a piece of crap. I buy into all the bologna that you run through my head. You cause me great pain by making me a worse parent than I know I could be if I didn’t have you in my life. You encourage me to get angry at my family and be very short with them. You make me take my bad stuff out on them and it is hurting them in ways that I thought I would never ever repeat because I know that they are very destructive to the people around me. You cause me to need more sleep than the average person (8-9 hours per night) and I can’t drastically alter my sleeping schedule without possible negative side effects. You cause me to need more “down time” than most people need. I can’t be as productive as a “normal” person because you are present in my life. I am less motivated than I would like to be. I get less done than other people do. You give me limitations and restraints that other people don’t have. I have less focus and concentration than most. It is harder to turn off the negative tapes in my head. I will probably need to take medications for the rest of my life.” Bipolar Disorder is a cunning and baffling disease. This disorder will cause much pain and suffering in people’s life until it is identified and dealt with. There will always be people that live their life undiagnosed but hopefully this article may help save someone, one of your loved ones, and substantially increase their quality of life and maybe even save their life.

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Bipolar Disorder caused a ton of hardship and hurt in Brad Gianninis' life before he was properly diagnosed and found a combination of medications that has worked relatively well bipolar disorder medication. Currently Brad is building a very successful internet business that you can learn more about at depression here.
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