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Description: Dr. Peter Melgaard Thompson uses a New Year's party as metaphor for bipolar disorder.
Armchair World: In Transition: #5 Manic Depression and the New Year The new year is upon us and it seems a fitting metaphor for a discussion of Manic Depression, a.k.a. Bipolar illness. One can think of a New Year's party. Parties are fun until there is an excess of libation - then the party can get out of control. With Manic Depression the hypomania or initial stages of a mania are often periods of heightened energy and feeling. However as the mania progresses, thoughts come faster and faster until they make no sense. The grandiose plans become bizarre and thoughts can become psychotic - that is hearing and seeing things that other people cannot. If the energy stayed at a controllable level, then there would be no need of treatment. In fact most people would refuse treatment, saying 'what is the problem?!' They would be right; however in most cases the mania turns destructive. Patients with Bipolar Illness can ruin both their life and their family's. This is usually done by acting out impulsive behaviors such as excessive spending, entering into new relationships that they would not normally enter into, or acting out a variety of agitated irrational behaviors. Manic Depression is usually a life long illness with periods of mania, depression and normal behavior.
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