Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar Disorder
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Bipolar Disorder
Also known as manic depression, is a health condition that is associated with significant changes in moods of a person that involve high and low emotions. Depression is typically accompanied by feelings of sadness, hopeless and to an extent, one may lose fun or interest in most activities. Mania, on the other hand, brings the sense of being active and euphoric. You may feel full of energy than usual. These episodes of mood swings can happen several times or rarely in a year. Mania usually takes few days or months while depression takes thrice as much as mania (Carlson, 2014).
Study on some of the celebrities in society during the 20th century have shown that most of them became creative from the psychological torture they get from bipolar disorder. Most of the affected artist has explained how they have been using the gift that comes along with creativity they get from the disease to their advantage. They use creativity to hide the depression they are undergoing (Johnson et al., 2012). It is believed that post mania and depression moments provide the awareness necessary to prosper in expressing creative arts (Power et al., 2015).
Some artists have done exceptionally well in overcoming their mental illness by diverting their attention to art and literature (Fields, 2013). This is a boost in life, and regardless, I still wouldn’t pick out an illness or disorder over sanity just because it would change my life for the good.

This is because I feel that coping with the kind of life where you take drugs on a daily basis is not an easy task. Usually, when the body takes a lot of drugs, with time, it will adapt to the medication and would require for an advanced treatment since the drugs will no longer work. With these challenges, one’s productivity in one’s community will be adversely affected.
Reference
Carlson, N. R. (2013). Foundations of behavioral neuroscience. Pearson Education.
Fields, R. D., Tennyson, L., & Woolf, V. (2013). Creativity, Madness and Drugs. Scientific American, MIND Guest blog, accessed October, 6, 2014.
Johnson, S. L., Murray, G., Fredrickson, B., Youngstrom, E. A., Hinshaw, S., Bass, J. M., … & Salloum, I. (2012). Creativity and bipolar disorder: touched by fire or burning with questions? Clinical psychology review, 32(1), 1-12.
Power, R. A., Steinberg, S., Bjornsdottir, G., Rietveld, C. A., Abdellaoui, A., Nivard, M. M., … & Cesarini, D. (2015). Polygenic risk scores for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder predict creativity. Nature neuroscience, 18(7), 953.