What it’s like living with bipolar

Bipolar is a complex mental health issue, those who write the guides on how to deal with mental health issues have broken the condition it’s self-down into 4 separate categories; those being bipolar I, bipolar II, cyclothymic disorder and other specified bipolar. With bipolar 1 the most servers and other specified bipolar considered the least server of them. Although in my opinion, this is not the best way to do it.

Because while they are all depended on something has happened with the condition, like for example to be classed as bipolar 1 you have to have had at least 1 period of full-blown mania that has lasted at least 1 week or longer. Whereas the others have different requirements to obtain those diagnoses.

Things like that are all very clinical and in my opinion, ignore a more holistic way of looking at the condition. Now while I am myself Bipolar 1, because I have not only had mania that lasts more than a week I have also had things like a psychotic episode and substantial depression which has led to a suicide attempt. But 95% of the time I know how to control it and I accept it is a part of me. I know what to do to prevent things going too far and I know when to ask for help with it if it gets too much for me.

But for example, someone with what is classed as a lesser form of it that has cyclothymic disorder, might not be able…