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What is Bipolar Disorder? What is manic depression?

November 26th, 2008 · 25 Comments

exception721 asked:


This video (Episode 1) explains the signs and symptoms bipolar disorder (manic depression).
If you suspect that you, or someone you know may be bipolar then you should watch this video. You will learn the common signs and symptoms of this mental illness. More info at: bipolarhelp.org

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25 responses so far ↓

  • 1 charliegirl6 // Nov 27, 2008 at 12:18 am

    I think I might be bipolar but am not sure. Firstly, I have rapid mood changes & go hyper mainly when shopping. I make bad decisions when spending money. Oh, & if I don’t have anyone to go out with me i won’t go out at all. I’m very scared and they’re like what feels like a safty guard to me. I’m very social phobic. & I often say I’ll do things that I mean and don’t do it. I’m nearly always tired and often feel like my entire existance is pointless. I don’t talk much especially to strangers.

  • 2 macmarphy // Nov 28, 2008 at 12:34 am

    i think everyone has the potential for these “disorders”, what i think manic depression is that people have tapped into their unlimited potential yet the external world does not provide them with the required outlet.

  • 3 macmarphy // Nov 28, 2008 at 8:10 pm

    new disorders are created to veer away from the fact these things are natural reactions to an insane society/lifestyle.

  • 4 mu86neer // Dec 1, 2008 at 1:34 am

    wowowow.. i guess u r really ill..sir, please help him,,hahaha

  • 5 DeathlyLost91 // Dec 2, 2008 at 12:25 pm

    wow, lionheart209, you’re an *******.mental illnesses are real. you, sir, need to take that stick out of your ***.

  • 6 feelie75 // Dec 2, 2008 at 1:32 pm

    not exactly the best narrator by any means…

    but still very informative and useful and appreciated to here the info presented. :)

  • 7 miserableanddead // Dec 5, 2008 at 3:32 am

    Bi polar is not made up. I have bi polar, showing from my unexplainable behaviour, random panic attacks and the voices in my head. Right now i’m coming to the end of my high. I try all the time to stay in this beautiful world, where everything is great even when it’s not but i end up just falling straight back down to earth and slicing my legs open out of depression then wondering later on when i get my high back why the hell i felt the need to cut myself in the first place. It’s so messed up!

  • 8 lionheart209 // Dec 8, 2008 at 9:15 am

    Bi-polar is a made up thing, they create new diseases all the time, so they can medicate it, it’s makes money for the drug industry.

  • 9 KVC1989KB // Dec 9, 2008 at 4:40 pm

    My depression has been mainly cause of myself and taking things to heart and people. And my own stupid mistakes I’ve made. I just worry alot anyway. I feel that certain people need to have consideration for other people’s emotions.

  • 10 KVC1989KB // Dec 11, 2008 at 10:04 am

    I’m 19 also and I’m goig through dat aswell, but it’s not about the being different, it’s how people don’t reaspect me for what I like and do, people also try make me look stupid when I make mistakes as if dey don’t make mistkaes themselves. If it continues to bother u, seek for professional help, it’s nothing to be ashamed of.

  • 11 raindog951 // Dec 11, 2008 at 7:14 pm

    Hmmm. I’ve got all the symptoms. No wonder I feel like crap most of the time.
    Good video.

  • 12 Constantrage // Dec 15, 2008 at 12:10 am

    i feel like i live in an ignorent world, so ignorent that they tell me IM weird and IM dumb…just because i **** being mean with others…no im actually better than them…but its worth **** sinse writting how i feel on utube will change **** exept making me maybe happy for the next couple of hours…and then somthing will happen again to make my life a pain in the ***..wow wut a life…

  • 13 Constantrage // Dec 15, 2008 at 11:43 am

    It aint my fault if i wasent born in uthopia, like fuck, i was born in hell, i dont have the need to insult somebody else or laff at him or torture him/her in any phisical or mental ways…but the rest of the world have that need..wich makes my life impossible…a uthopic man dosent fit in a evil world…i feel like an angel agaisnt a bunch of reatarded monkeys, trying to learn them the ways of love and hapiness but their monkey brain makes em scared of difrence…

  • 14 Constantrage // Dec 17, 2008 at 4:57 am

    like the only people dat cares for me is my family…but like i give a **** wut my family think of me or if they love…like holy ****…all i want is to feel loved and apreciate…but all i feel like is a boulder that the society trys to just discharge evryday…its weird so much i can love myself a day, i can **** myself the next 1, i cant work because evry job i have i loose them cuz of depresion…fuck im sick of being so fucking lonnely and alienated and discriminated…

  • 15 Constantrage // Dec 20, 2008 at 10:44 am

    i mean how to be happy ?, wut makes somebody happy is the things he spent doing with others, but what if u have no contact with others cuz others **** u or just dont like u because ur difrent, or weird or bezzare or wtv the **** i am…maybe an alien from jupiter or sum **** LOL…nah but seriously, i just feel like the whole world is crushing me down, its so anoying…im 19 and been like dat sinse im like 13 or 14…and im so exhausted of all that ****…i just dont know wut to do

  • 16 Constantrage // Dec 21, 2008 at 6:36 am

    Ya holy **** im so bi-polar, and tourret and agrophobia, social-phobia, and a bunch of other phobias…so how the **** can u live like that?…cuz really i dont have a clue how to deal with life and myself…i just **** evrything and feel like killing myself evryday…fuck im so sick and tired of feeling this way…but im so lonnely i cant see i shoudent be like that…i just cant find any reason to smile

  • 17 CatFlashBlue // Dec 22, 2008 at 9:57 am

    huh? flippant? you think I have cancer? well I’m confused but on a serious matter I seem to have offended people who know 100% that they are Bi Polar. I’m sorry. I was just trying to figure myself out and at the time I was hyper so maybe that accounts for it, but whatever it was I’m sorry for that particular comment :*)

  • 18 lesstv4me // Dec 23, 2008 at 2:53 pm

    “a recent finding was that exercise is NOT effective in treating depression.”
    Could you send me a link to that study please?

  • 19 lesstv4me // Dec 26, 2008 at 4:10 am

    You are an ignoramus. Would you comment such flippant comments about the symptoms of a cancer? Clearly you don’t need to put on any act about being a retard.

  • 20 pngwebmail // Dec 28, 2008 at 11:18 pm

    it literally feels like two opposite poles in my personality. im either on my way up, or hitting rock bottom. it alternates about every 30 min according to my fiance. i am getting back on meds again. i always tell myself its just in my head or blame external factors that trigger my moods. its hard acccepting you have a chemical imbalance/mental illness. just hope i can learn to stay on my medicine because everytime the medicine works, i feel normal again and think i don’t need the meds.

  • 21 voodooRx // Jan 1, 2009 at 7:07 am

    I have bipolar disorder and I have tried at least 30 different prescriptions and NOT ONE OF THEM HAS EVER WORKED. However, I can take a few tokes of MARIJUANA in the morning, a few tokes in the evening, and I function just fine. I am not a “POTHEAD”, I take about 3 to 4 tokes at a time. NATION-WIDE MEDICAL MARIJUANA NOW!!!!!!!!!

  • 22 CatFlashBlue // Jan 2, 2009 at 7:12 am

    AHHHH! I think I have Bi Polar! Last night I was REEALLLY hyper and before I watched this I was just fine and dandy and now I’m hyper again AHHHH!

  • 23 doogwood // Jan 2, 2009 at 9:28 pm

    my question is how does paranoia fit into the equation?

  • 24 radillo123 // Jan 4, 2009 at 10:49 am

    pills arent made to solve the problem,, its a type of help that should go in hand with therapy… you cant expect to take a pill and make it all better,, of course it will take care of your panic attack or anxiety attack, but only temporarily… you also have to truly lay down your cards, with or without help,, but like they said before,, its all in your head and in your power and its in your power to ask for help and/or take a pill to help yourself,,
    but thats me and it could be wrong

  • 25 XxBlankXprincexX // Jan 6, 2009 at 10:43 pm

    T_T I got in trouble in school for being bipolar…
    I felt isolated in school

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