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A beautiful mind (bipolar disorder (the National Institute of Mental…

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        illness can be broadly categorised into three types, known as
        
        bipolar I
        
        Bipolar I and II are both associated with extreme mood swings over time
        
        bipolar II
        
        bipolar II involves cycles of extreme ups and downs
        
        because the mood shifts are mild, the disease can often be misunderstood as an aspect of the person’s personality.
        
        with bipolar II being a milder version of bipolar I.
        
        bipolar III
        
        meanwhile, is an unofficial term for mood shifts resulting from medicines or other chemicals.
        
        “Bipolar II doesn’t affect how patients function at work. Bipolar I has a significant impact on work. For example, patients might laugh all day because they feel extremely happy about something, but they can’t perform. And they might get fired because of that,”
        
        “Bipolar II presents itself in the form of mood instability. You’re extremely happy one moment then might be extremely sad the next. During low episodes, you feel depressed and want to be alone. During high episodes, you feel so grand that you become hard to please and subsequently feel irritable. What some people see as negative personality traits are actually symptoms of bipolar II,”
        
        “Bipolar disorder is a brain disease. So the extreme highs and lows occur on their own, without patients being stimulated by something. If you feel very happy or very sad because you were complimented or criticised by your boss, then that’s a normal emotional reaction,”
        
        These misunderstandings are one of the reasons that Thailand
        
        has no statistics regarding the disorder
      - According to Dr Piyawat
        
        most patients feel no need to visit a psychiatrist
        
        because their symptoms only slightly affect how they perform and function, especially at work
        
        Even though the mood shifts can be disturbing
        
        In most cases patients are the only one seriously affected by their behaviour.
        
        stimuli are an important way of figuring out if a person is bipolar or just suffering the normal ups and downs that everybody goes through.
  - - - or about 2.6 percent of the population aged over 18.
      - Figures collected in Thailand over a decade ago revealed that bipolar I affected 1 to 3 percent of the population