Volume 6 Issue 6 June 2016
❌It is impossible to help someone with bipolar disorder
✅Bipolar disorder can be managed effectively with medications, psychotherapy, and support. Most patients get remission with proper treatment
❌People with bipolar disorder cannot work
✅With proper treatment majority of people with bipolar successfully work
❌If you have bipolar disorder, you are crazy all the time
✅Bipolar disorder is characterized by episodes of mania (high) and depression (low) and in majority of patients these episodes are separated with the period of normalcy (euthymic phase)
❌Suicide is not common in people with bipolar disorder
✅Risk of suicide is high in depression as well as mania (i.e. both the phases of bipolar disorder). Hence all the patients with bipolar should be evaluated for suicidal ideation and self-harm behaviors
Swapnil Tripathi, final year, MBBS student, AIIMS, Jodhpur, Rajasthan
