After watching the interview of
Megan the 25-year-old graduate student with Bipolar from chapter 12 it really
change my thinking and what I thought Bipolar was. Megan described a time where she was manic
for about 3 months, which caused her to be really productive, which I don’t see
as a bad thing, but then it got to the point where she wasn’t sleep or
eating. She began to perceive situation
as safe when they were not and vice versa.
I was always under the impression that Bipolar caused a person to have
an extreme emotion one minute and then another extreme emotion the next, where
it is impossible to read the persons emotional state. I know this disorder can vary from person to
person but I wasn’t aware that stress could be a contributing factor, and how
important stress management is. Megan
talks about how she has stress relief tactics to make sure she doesn’t get to
the point where she is really stress out, such as lighting candles, listening
to music and working out every day. I
think that these are great tactics to have whether or not you have this
disorder to keep stress at bay.
