The chase of light and shadow: turning over the peak of mania and crossing the trough of depression

#躁郁症: The "Genius Disease" of Traveling to and from Heaven and Hell #

"Have you ever experienced this feeling?" Struggling repeatedly in the abyss of mania and depression, it was as if one second in heaven and the next second in hell.

When I was manic, I was like a God, omnipotent, my future, my life, everything in my own hands. Infinite brain holes are opened. Thinking freely, gushing expression, thinking that they can do everything, even if they stay up all night, they still have strong energy and full of emotions, and arrange work and schedules without interruption. I don't need any pauses and gasps. Uncontrolled consumption, let me indulge. The slightest thing will make me thunderous.

When you are depressed, the feeling of being ruthlessly swallowed up by depression, thinking of nothing, not wanting to do anything, wanting to escape from the crowd, even yourself, time becomes blurred, inferiority and self-sin fill the whole body, and the thought of ending life often flashes in the mind.

In my world, the alternation of mania and depression is never-ending, with no end in sight. I was lost to the real world, thinking of heaven and hell. ”

And this is the patient with bipolar disorder.

Bipolar disorder is a type of mood disorder in which there are both manic or hypomanic episodes and depressive episodes.

Manic episodes are characterized by high emotions, rushing thinking, and increased activity. The mood is obviously elevated, irritable, and incongruous with the environment in which the individual is located. Increased activity, loss of social restraint and even behavior; increase in speech; subjective experience of drifting or rushing thoughts (faster speech, compulsive speech); inattention or diversion of attention; over-evaluation or exaggeration of self-evaluation; decreased need for sleep; reckless behavior (e.g., profligate, irresponsible, or reckless behavior, etc.); hypersexuality. In severe cases, psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions may occur. Serious damage to social functioning, or dangerous or adverse consequences for others. The course of the disease has lasted at least 1 week.

In depressive episodes, they are characterized by symptoms such as low mood, slow thinking, and decreased activity; typical symptoms are: low mood, loss of interest and pleasure, lack of energy, or fatigue. Other common symptoms are: decreased ability to focus and pay attention; decreased self-evaluation; self-guilt and sense of worthlessness; pessimism about a bleak future; self-injurious or suicidal notions or behaviors; sleep disturbances; decreased appetite. The course of the disease lasts at least two weeks.

The treatment of bipolar disorder is treated with psychotropic treatment, physical therapy, psychotherapy, crisis intervention and other measures, the purpose of which is to improve efficacy, improve compliance, prevent recurrence and suicide, improve social functioning and better improve the quality of life of patients.

However, the treatment of patients is also very much related to family factors, such as family members expressing negative emotions to patients, discriminating against patients, and lack of awareness of the disease by patients and family members.

In the story of Jin Xiaoyu and his family in "Our Genius Son", we see the family of a bipolar disorder patient with a lifetime of love and companionship support, and he climbs over the peak of mania, crosses the depression trough, passes through the shadow of the disease, and chases the light of life.

Countless netizens have seen tenacious love in this sad story:

Life is obviously so fragile, but it often erupts with transcendent power.

If you find that light, the world is worth it.

Also see:

For everyone: Mental disorders (mental illness) is a general term for a type of disease, "is a series of clinically identifiable symptoms or behaviors that cause pain or hinder personal functioning in most patients", including bipolar disorder, depressive disorder, schizophrenia, schizophrenia, anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorder, sleep disorder, personality disorder, hyperactivity disorder, mental retardation, dementia, mental and behavioral disorders caused by the use of psychoactive substances, etc. Many of us usually hear about or have not heard of.

Psychopaths can neither be stigmatized nor over-glorified. A result of the China Mental Health Survey shows that the lifetime prevalence of various mental disorders (excluding elderly dementia) is 16.57%, which means that these patients are actually ordinary people around us, living under the same sky, floating in the sea of people, desperately trying to survive.

To the family: he is sick, what he did is not what he wants to do, please understand him, bring him to the doctor for treatment, accompany him, love him, please never give up on him.

To patients: sick, go to good treatment on the line, life still has to move forward, do not have to be afraid of discrimination and prejudice. There is always someone in the world who supports you, find someone who loves you, find someone who is willing to help you, and we will never give up on you.

The light and shadow chase of bipolar disorder: turning over the peak of mania, crossing the depression trough, and ending with love and support.

#健康明星计划 #