Recently, an article "Our Genius Son" made the whole network cry.
The 85-year-old Jin Sex Yong tells the story of his son Jin Xiaoyu, who was blind in one eye from an early age, and then suffered from the long-winded fate of the mental illness "bipolar disorder (also known as bipolar disorder)".
There is a saying in the Bible that goes something like this: "When God closes this door, he will open another door for you." ”
Although Xiaoyu has suffered unbearable disasters and illnesses from ordinary people, it is fortunate that Xiaoyu is talented and intelligent, coupled with his own diligence, he did not graduate from high school, taught himself many foreign languages at home, obtained a self-examination diploma from the English Department of Zhejiang University, translated 22 books in decades, spanning novels, movies, music, philosophy and other fields...
Such achievements are "remarkable" for ordinary people, not to mention Jin Xiaoyu, who has eye disabilities and bipolar disorder.
"There are no typos, sentences, or mistranslations in the whole book, and every book sells well, and the readers' response is very good." 、
"I loved the book, I didn't expect him to translate it"
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The praise of editors and readers is the greatest affirmation of Jin Xiaoyu.
The most rare thing is that Xiaoyu has always silently accompanied him, understood him, and supported his parents, for Xiaoyu, his parents poured all their love and energy, especially when Xiaoyu's bipolar disorder attacked, his parents endured all the pain, and gave him all the warmth and all the love.
Family photo of Jin Xiaoyu in his childhood
Let's first understand Xiaoyu's bipolar disorder.
Bipolar disorder, also known as bipolar disorder (BD), is a psychiatric disorder that has both manic and depressive episodes and can occur at any age.
What are the typical symptoms of bipolar attacks?
1. Manic episodes
Typical manic episodes are characterized by the "three highs" symptoms of high mood, rushing thinking, and increased willpower. In a state of psychomotor excitement.
1. High emotions:
Patients are relaxed, optimistic, irritable, and lose their temper over small things. In severe cases there may be impulsive speech and behavior.
2. Running thinking:
Patients think fast, speak quickly, speak fast, speak a lot, talk endlessly, and speak dryly.
In patients with severe seizures, there may be auditory hallucinations, delusions, dizziness, and behavioral disorders with impulsive behavior.
3. Enhanced will behavior
Patients are constantly planning, busy all day, sociable, nosy, impulsive, reckless, and reckless.
2. Hypomanic attacks
The clinical manifestations of hypomanic attacks are mild, the patient's social function is only mildly impaired, it is not easy to be recognized, and the patient has no self-awareness.
3. Depressive episodes
Typical depressive episodes are characterized by the "three lows" symptoms of low mood, slow thinking and pessimism, and decreased will and behavior, accompanied by cognitive decline and somatic symptoms, and are in a state of psychomotor inhibition.
1. Depressed mood
Patients fall into significant and persistent emotional depressions such as depression, pessimism, despair, and loss of interest.
2. Slow thinking and pessimism
The patient's brain is like a rusted machine, the speed of speech is slow, and the severe ones cannot communicate normally. Patients are depressed, pessimistic, have a sense of uselessness, valuelessness, helplessness, and self-blame. There are even suicidal thoughts and attempts.
3) Decreased will activity
Patients are slow in activity and behavior, lazy in life, often sit alone or bedridden all day, daily life needs to be cooked, do not want to do things, do not want to go to work, do not participate in activities, avoid social interaction, serious cases do not speak, do not move, refuse to eat.
In addition, patients may also be accompanied by anxiety, hallucinations, delusions and other psychotic symptoms. The patient's course of illness is complex and changeable, and in the intermittent period between the two episodes, there are long and short, and the symptoms during the interval disappear, and the patient is no different from ordinary people.
When patients become ill, they will have impulsive behaviors and aggressive behaviors, which hurt themselves or others and cause a great burden on their families.
When Xiaoyu was six years old, he was shot in the eye by a neighbor child playing with him with a toy pistol with a needle, resulting in blindness in his left eye, which cast a shadow on Xiaoyu in his childhood.
In the long process of study, although Xiaoyu is at the top of his studies, he still feels that he and others are abnormal, perhaps ridiculed by his classmates, looked at each other differently, or extremely sensitive because of his disabled eyes, Xiaoyu may have had psychological and mentally unhealthy changes in such a long-term atmosphere.
These experiences may have laid the foundation for Xiaoyu's later school aversion and bipolar disorder.
Xiaoyu dropped out of high school due to boredom, and then his temperament changed dramatically.
"He doesn't talk to us either, he loses his temper suddenly, he's emotionally unstable, and he's completely changed."
When Xiaoyu has a manic attack, he will be manic and destructive, and he has smashed the refrigerator, TV, washing machine, table, bookshelves, cabinet, door at home... The house was constantly repaired and replaced with broken items.
When Xiaoyu had a depression attack, he did not like to go to school, was depressed, had insomnia at night, and even committed suicide. Xiaoyu once committed suicide by taking sleeping pills and hanged himself, but fortunately he was discovered by his parents in time.
After Xiaoyu was 20 years old, his bipolar attacks were more frequent, and sometimes the drugs could not be controlled, and he had to go to the hospital almost every year.
However, Xiaoyu also has a "blessing in disguise", during his mania, due to the increase in creativity, high emotions, running thinking and enhanced will, he taught himself many foreign languages, and obtained a self-examination diploma from the English Department of Zhejiang University, translating 22 books in decades, spanning novels, movies, music, philosophy and other fields...
His translated books are rigorous and serious, and there are no typos, sentences, or mistranslations in the whole book, which are well received by publishers and readers.
People with bipolar disorder have difficulty making friends due to extreme emotional instability, and Xiaoyu is no exception. Fortunately, his father was not only the father who loved him the most, but also his best friend and closest assistant in his life.
Patients with bipolar disorder also have a good nature. When Xiaoyu was ill, he smashed a lot of things in the house, but never smashed his mother's sewing machine, because the sewing machine carried his mother's love for the whole family. After her mother unfortunately suffered from Alzheimer's disease in her old age, Xiaoyu was very sad and took good care of her mother for several years.
In addition to taking care of his mother, Xiaoyu also worked hard to translate books day and night, and the frequency of onset miraculously decreased. However, he was still imprisoned in the hospital because of an illness that knocked out the front teeth of a courier, and he did not even see the last side of his mother before she died.
Translations by Jin Xiaoyu
Spanning novels, films, music, and philosophy
Treatment of bipolar disorder
Current treatments for bipolar emotion include medication, physical therapy, and psychotherapy.
Doctors will develop different treatment plans according to the different conditions of patients, solve patients' acute attacks, prevent patients' future seizures, reduce the frequency of attacks, and improve quality of life.
Acute phase treatment
Severe patients require emergency psychiatric hospitalization to ensure their own safety and that of others.
drug therapy
Pharmacotherapy should cover the entire course of the disease and be divided into acute, consolidation, and maintenance phases.
1. Mood stabilizer: lithium carbonate, valproate, lamotrigine
2. Antipsychotic drugs: such as olanzapine, clozapine, risperidone, aripiprazole, ziprasidone, etc
psychotherapy
These include psychoeducational interventions, cognitive behavioral therapy, family therapy, interpersonal and social harmony therapy, etc.
Repeat the treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation
May be indicated for manic and depressive episodes. Vagus nerve stimulation and deep brain stimulation are both invasive treatments that doctors generally use with caution.
Light therapy
Suitable for seasonal affective disorder, atypical depression, and disorders characterized by a depressive mood and altered appetite (e.g., premenstrual syndrome and bulimia nervosa).
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Bipolar disorder is seriously harmful, even if the patient recovers, the patient and family should pay attention to nursing care to avoid recurrence of the disease
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