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Jumping from a feeling of extreme elation to a melancholic mood or known as bipolar disorder is already common worldwide. It becomes a threat to the person experiencing such symptoms and also to others if not managed. It could be very detrimental to the person
suffering this type of disorder since it can be a cause for a social death.  Society often prejudges them as lunatics or plainly “different”. It is very frequent especially for people who do not know the nature of the disorder to pull away from people showing such symptoms.

With  innovations on medicine and success in research, patients with bipolar disorder
can now live a more favorable lifestyle. There are different therapies that
could help in stabilizing one’s mood, one example is psychoeducation. As for
medications, a common mood stabilizer drug is the Lithium bicarbonate. It is
also very important that you get the right diagnosis; depression alone can
sometimes be misdiagnosed as bipolar and vice versa.

So if you suffer from such disorder, or if you know someone perhaps a family
member or a friend, don’t let those symptoms bring you down, seek help and live
the life you’ve always wanted. =)