Bipolar disorder, also known as “manic-depressive illness”, is a brain disease that causes people to have unusual shifts in their mood, energy and ability to function. These mood shifts are very different from the normal ups and downs that everyone goes through; the shifts of the person with bipolar disorder are so severe that they impair the person’s thinking and judgement, resulting in relationships problems, poor work and school performance and even causing them to harm themselves.
This sounds rather frightening, but there is good news behind all these clouds of gloom. The disease can be treated and people with bipolar disorder can live full and productive lives. Let us hear the story of an aspiring poet.
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