Signs of Bipolar Disorder #shorts
00:00:00.000 | The way that bipolar disorder can present
00:00:02.040 | can vary tremendously between individuals.
00:00:04.760 | One person might go from very high highs
00:00:06.880 | that last seven days or more to very low lows,
00:00:08.880 | bouts of major depression that can last two weeks or more.
00:00:13.340 | Other people are rapid cycling by way of three days manic,
00:00:16.960 | three days normal, three days manic,
00:00:18.680 | and then dropping into three days depression.
00:00:20.760 | So you want to erase that picture in your mind
00:00:23.220 | that manic bipolar disorder is this sine wave,
00:00:26.220 | this cycling up and down between mania and depression.
00:00:29.200 | It can take a lot of different forms.
00:00:31.120 | This is a serious challenge for the psychiatrist
00:00:34.040 | to diagnose people because of that fact
00:00:37.000 | that they're only getting a snapshot of the person
00:00:39.000 | unless they've known them for some time
00:00:40.460 | and are working with them for some time.
00:00:42.320 | But this is also especially important for those of you
00:00:45.200 | that either have bipolar depression
00:00:48.360 | or suspect that you might,
00:00:49.600 | or that know someone with bipolar depression
00:00:53.280 | or suspect somebody might have bipolar depression,
00:00:56.800 | AKA bipolar disorder.
00:00:58.440 | the way that bipolar disorder can.