Mental Health Update

Here's a good, straight-forward explanation of manic depression or, as it's officially known, bipolar disorder.

It is an illness that is officially called bipolar disorder but Ian prefers ‘manic depression’ because it is more descriptive. For 80 per cent of the time, people are depressed or not functioning and for the other 20 per cent of the time they are manic or ‘high’. “They’re extravagant, on top of the world, full of energy,” Ian says, “but often full of mad and crazy schemes to spend money, to invest, to rearrange the relationships in their lives…"‘

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