#躁郁症: The "Genius Disease" #健康明星计划 to and from Heaven and Hell #
Last night, the genius translator Jin Xiaoyu brushed the screen, and the whole network was in tears.
An 85-year-old man published an article titled "My Gifted Sons", which told the story of the difficulty of a family of four, and the words cried blood.
It mentions a disease that we may be somewhat unfamiliar with: manic depression, also known as bipolar disorder.
The old man's family was a Kochi family, and both husband and wife were college students of that era and had a pair of "genius sons".
Both sons are excellent, the eldest son was admitted to Fudan University, and later to Australia.
The youngest son, Jin Xiaoyu, is also very smart, and it is no problem to enter a key university, but his fate is uncertain.
In the first year of high school, the youngest son, Jin Xiaoyu, suddenly changed his temperament and proposed to drop out of school. The temper became extremely grumpy, and the electrical appliances in the house were smashed over and over again, resulting in the four walls of the house, and they did not dare to have any electrical appliances.
I worked two jobs, but I was extremely emotionally unstable, I couldn't do it for a long time, and I went to the hospital to check and diagnose "manic depression", and the sky of the couple collapsed.
Soon Jin Xiaoyu suddenly became "normal", saying that he wanted to go to college, and only reviewed for a few months before being admitted to the heavy book, but the illness in the school led to absenteeism, absence from work and was withdrawn, and he had no luck with the university.
Has been recuperating at home is also full of dangers, Jin Xiaoyu took sleeping pills to commit suicide, hanging on a belt in the toilet..... Depression and mania continue to alternate, but fortunately they are found in time to save them.
In order to let his son have the idea of living, his father spent a huge amount of money to buy him a computer, and Jin Xiaoyu would smash electrical appliances when he fell ill, but did not touch the computer.
This computer has also become the key to open the "road to genius".
Jin Xiaoyu also showed amazing talent and concentration at home because of illness, and spent six years teaching himself German and Japanese to consolidate English. Watching foreign language movies, he first looks at the subtitles with Chinese, and after reading them, he makes a note to block the subtitles and then watch. Watch a movie N times until you fully understand it.
In the past ten years, he has translated 22 books in English, Japanese, and German, an average of 2 books per year, and read almost all foreign language novels in Zhejiang Library.
Translation is his talent and his only weapon in the fight against fate.
Maybe many people don't know.
"Manic Depression Multi-Talent" written by a psychiatrist in the United States lists 25 historical celebrities, including Beethoven, Van Gogh, Newton, Hemingway...
They all suffer from bipolar disorder, suffer unbearable pain from ordinary people, and are geniuses in the field of art!
It can be said that bipolar disorder is a "genius disease" that travels between heaven and hell!
What exactly is bipolar disorder?
Bipolar, one is the depressive phase, that is, depressive disorder, easy to be depressed, loss of interest, slow thinking, loss of hope and vitality in life, doing everything painfully and wanting to commit suicide.
One phase is bipolar, on the surface it seems to be high emotions, excitement, and then gushing as if particularly excited, but in fact, his inner experience is not pleasant. Just like riding a roller coaster, the emotional experience is very exciting, but ordinary people cannot continue to accept this stimulation, and some people, who have a sense of trance and pain, will make self-harming behaviors, and they cannot control what they think and do.
Bipolar disorder is the constant alternating episodes of bipolar disorder.
Manic episodes last more than 1 week, hypomanic episodes last more than 4 days, and depressive episodes last for more than 2 weeks, and adversely affect the patient's daily life and social functioning.
In 2011, according to the World Health Organization, the average incidence of bi-directional disorder in the world was 2.4%, which can be as high as 5%-7% in some countries or regions, and the suicide rate is 15 times that of the general population! Of all mental illnesses, the suicide rate is the highest!
Bipolar disorder predominantly occurs in early adulthood. Most patients have an initial onset age between 20 and 30 years, with onset before the age of 25 years becoming more common, with peak age of onset concentrated at 15 to 19 years. In China, patients with bipolar disorder account for 1%-1.5% of the total number of patients with various types of mental disorders.
Bipolar disorder patients may be all around us.
Simply put, bipolar disorder is more complex than depression as we know it, with more manic disorder.
Bipolar disorder is actually a serious mental illness.
What does it mean to have bipolar affective disorder, mentally losing its proper function?
The mental function is: I know who I am, I know where I am, I know who you are, I know what the objective world is, I can control my emotions and behavior, and so on.
Bipolar disorder is one of the six major types of mental illness in mainland China, and what we often call "neuropathy" is actually schizophrenia.
What are the symptoms of bipolar disorder?
Because it is a disease, the physical changes can be seen, and it will suddenly have a point in time for change.
1. It is common in terms of sleep and diet. Some people suddenly can't sleep, they don't sleep for several days and they are energetic, and some people become sleepy and can't get up. Some people have become very able to eat, how to eat not enough, some people just have no appetite, do not want to eat anything.
2, emotionally, he suddenly became rhetorical, incomparably confident, giving people a feeling of the strongest person in the universe, the degree of self-confidence exceeds the degree of everyone's understanding of him, which is why he began to be manic.
3, the most serious, is the appearance of hallucinations and fantasies. It is manifested in the fact that we can see that he is talking to himself, that there is no one around, that he is hallucinating and talking to people who do not exist. There are also delusions, some people think that the other party loves him deeply and wants to marry him, which is actually inconsistent with objective reality.
What are the triggers for bipolar disorder?
1, genetic inheritance accounts for a large part, bipolar disorder can be inherited, there are studies that show that babies with family history, foster care in normal families after birth, the incidence will be very high in the future.
2, the original family / childhood experience is also one of them, such as parents often quarrel, family conflicts. Parents physically abuse, verbal abuse, and sexual abuse of their children. Or parents' emotional and physical and physical negligence towards their children, just ignoring the birth and raising, indifferent like strangers, will lead to the child's mental health is incomplete, easy to suffer from bipolar disorder.
3, environmental factors, such as drug abuse, such as the decline in socio-economic status, for women, having children is also an inducement, before and after giving birth to physical hormones, body immunity, family environment will change, become a trigger, so for women there is more risk.
That said, the fact that your birth family is happy doesn't mean you won't suffer from bipolar disorder.
There are now very stable and safe drug treatments, the sooner the treatment is found, the more stable the disease can be controlled, and the later it is, the more repeated the disease.
And must be the right medicine, if the abuse of drug treatment, the use of drugs is not right, on the contrary, it is easy to aggravate the disease.
How do I get along with someone with bipolar disorder?
1, family, friends: firmly optimistic, no matter how sad we are, do not show it. Tell them that many people in the world want this disease and firmly support them. Tell them to accept their imperfections and learn to live in peace. We always pay more attention to his behavior, avoid conflicts with his family and friends around him, and make him feel cared for and supported.
When dealing with a bipolar disorder patient, we pay attention to the expression on his face, and if we perceive that something is wrong, we protect ourselves and do not stimulate him.
2, life: can help them arrange rest time reasonably, ensure adequate sleep, encourage some labor and exercise.
3, as a social group, we have more understanding and acceptance, they are just sick, not beasts.
Patients are not sick all the time, and when they are not sick, they are also flesh and blood people like us normal people.
The so-called illness is not so much different from normal people, because each of us will get sick. Physical illness deserves care, as should mental illness.
The height of a society depends on its attitude towards the "weak.".
A society with a conscience and a temperature can accept and accommodate all groups.
Resources:
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fifth Edition), American Psychiatric Society, Peking University Press, 2014.