Have you ever been nice to someone one day to their face and taken them to lunch? The next day only to turn around and talk about them behind their back to others? Oh wait, That is not bipolar that is two-faced! Bi-Polar also known as manic depressant disorder is misconceived as many things.
Bipolar disorder is also stereotyped most of the time.
Raising awareness of bipolar disorder helps to create a better understanding of what men and women deal with on a daily basis. As stated by Wikipedia (2013) "There are widespread problems with social stigma, stereotypes, and prejudice against individuals with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder. Kay Redfield Jamison, a clinical psychologist and Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, profiled her own bipolar disorder in her memoir An Unquiet Mind (1995). In his autobiography Manicdotes: There's Madness in His Method (2008) Chris Joseph describes his struggle between the creative dynamism which allowed the creation of his multi-million pound advertising agency Hook Advertising, and the money-squandering dark despair of his bipolar illness."
Bipolar disorder is that of a mental health state where emotions swing from one end of the spectrum to the other. People experience different moods such as manic or hypo-manic. These moods swing can and will interfere with activities of daily living. Many people with bipolar disorder also experience periods of depressed mood, but this is not universal. There is no simple physiological test to confirm the disorder. Diagnosing bipolar disorder is often difficult, even for mental health professionals. In particular, it can be difficult to distinguish depression caused by bipolar disorder from just depression itself.
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