A Scary Part of Bipolar — Out-of-Control Symptoms

Most people seek help for bipolar disorder because their lives and their bipolar symptoms are out-of-control. If everything was workable, people wouldn’t be seeking out medical help. And it’s very understandable to be scared of the out-of-control bipolar symptoms that drove you to help in the first place. A depression that leaves you friendless due to self-imposed isolation or a mania that leaves you jobless due to lack of insight are things that are rightly very scary,

But here’s the thing about scary bipolar symptoms — they tend to be mitigated by treatment. That’s why we seek treatment in the first place. For example, while mania can be a scary state that can contain psychosis (the presence of delusions and/or hallucinations), among other things,

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