(August 12, 2014 at 5:45 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Bipolar can be deadly. I've read the planning for a suicide is rarely more than a day. Often, it's less than an hour. Really depressed people rarely have the energy. BD's do.
Yeah. One of the things that many people don't get is how incredibly destructive the manic part of the cycle is, up to and leading to the downswing. What you've got then is an unstable person with no concept of consequences, often co-morbid with alcohol/cocaine/other substance abuse, who may be delusional and not capable of rational thought. That person may not have slept in a week, but has all the energy in the world. Charlie Sheen is a pretty well-known example.
(August 12, 2014 at 5:45 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Make sure your loved one's know. I have a BD daughter and I don't leave her alone on the downswing.
They all know, of course. I have a lot of people looking out for me. Fortunately I have been mostly asymptomatic for about three years now.
