An 85-year-old man published an article "My Genius Sons", telling the story of a family of four, with blood in every word.
It mentions a disease that we may not be familiar with: manic depression, also known as bipolar disorder.
The old man's family is an intellectual family. Both husband and wife were college students of that era and had a pair of "gifted sons".
Both sons are excellent. The eldest son was admitted to Fudan and later went to Australia for TOEFL.
The youngest son, Jin Xiaoyu, is also very smart, and it is no problem to be admitted to a key university, but he is ill-fated.
In the first year of high school, Jin Xiaoyu, the youngest son, suddenly changed his temperament and proposed to drop out of school. My temper became very grumpy, and all the appliances in my house were smashed, which made my family afraid to have any appliances.
I have had two jobs, but my mood is extremely unstable and I can't work long hours. When he was diagnosed as "manic depression" in the hospital, the couple's life collapsed.
Soon Jin Xiaoyu suddenly became "normal" again, saying that he wanted to go to college. After only reviewing for a few months, he was admitted to a re-school. However, he was absent from school due to illness and was expelled from school. From then on, he missed the university.
It is also dangerous to rest at home all the time. Jin Xiaoyu committed suicide by taking sleeping pills and hanged himself with a belt in the toilet ... Depression and mania kept alternating, but fortunately, they were both found in time and rescued.
In order to give his son the idea of living, his father spent a lot of money to buy him a computer. When Jin Xiaoyu is ill, he will smash electrical appliances, but he won't touch the computer.
Because Jin Xiaoyu was ill at home, he also showed amazing talent and concentration. He taught himself German and Japanese for six years and consolidated his English. When watching foreign language movies, he first watches those with Chinese subtitles. After understanding the subtitles, he will make a mark to block the subtitles before watching. Watch a movie repeatedly for n times until you fully understand it.
In the past ten years, he has translated 22 books in English, Japanese and German, with an average of 2 books a year, and almost read all the foreign novels in Zhejiang Library.
Maybe many people don't know.
An American psychiatrist wrote Mania and Depression, which listed 25 historical celebrities, including Beethoven, Van Gogh, Newton and Hemingway. ...
They are all suffering from bipolar disorder, suffering from unbearable pain of ordinary people, and at the same time being geniuses in the art field!
It can be said that bipolar disorder is a "genius disease" between heaven and hell
Bipolar disorder, one is depression, that is, depression, easy to get depressed, lose interest, slow thinking, lose hope and vitality in life, and want to commit suicide in everything.
On the one hand, he is manic and depressed. On the surface, he was in high spirits and excited, and then he was particularly excited when he spoke. In fact, his inner experience is not pleasant. Just like riding a roller coaster, the emotional experience is very exciting, but ordinary people can't continue to accept this kind of excitement. Some people, with a sense of trance and pain, will hurt themselves and can't control what they think and do.
Mania attacks last for more than 1 week, hypomania attacks last for more than 4 days, and depression attacks last for more than 2 weeks, which have adverse effects on patients' daily life and social function.
According to the World Health Organization's 20 1 1 survey, the average incidence of bipolar disorder in the world is 2.4%, which can be as high as 5%-7% in some countries or regions, and the suicide rate is 15 times that of the general population! But among all mental diseases, the suicide rate is the highest!
Bipolar disorder mainly occurs in early adulthood. The patients are mostly between 20 and 30 years old, and the onset is mostly before 25 years old, and the peak age of onset is 15- 19 years old. In China, patients with bipolar disorder account for 1%- 1.5% of the total number of patients with various mental disorders.
Bipolar patients may be around us.
Simply put, bipolar disorder is more complicated and manic than the familiar depression.
Bipolar disorder is actually a serious mental illness.
Mental function is: I know who I am, I know where I am, I know who you are, I know what the objective world is like, and I can control my emotions and behaviors.
Bipolar disorder is one of the six major mental diseases in China, and the "neuropathy" we often say is actually schizophrenia.
Because it is a disease, the changes in the body are visible, and there will suddenly be a point of change.
1, which is commonly manifested in sleep and diet. Some people suddenly can't sleep, and they are full of energy after a few days without sleep. Some people become sleepy and can't get up. Some people become very able to eat, not enough to eat. Some people just have no appetite and don't want to eat anything.
Emotionally, he suddenly became boastful and extremely confident, giving people the feeling of being the strongest in the universe. The degree of self-confidence is beyond everyone's understanding of him, that is, he is beginning to be manic.
3. The most serious things are hallucinations and fantasies. Now we can see him talking to himself, and there is no one around. He hallucinated and talked to people who didn't exist. There are also delusions, but some people think that the other person loves him deeply and wants to marry him, which is actually not in line with the objective reality.
1, genetic inheritance accounts for a large part, and bipolar disorder can be inherited. Studies have shown that babies with family history will be raised by normal families after birth, and the incidence will be high in the future.
2. Family background/childhood experience is also one of them, such as frequent quarrels between parents and family conflicts. Physical abuse, verbal abuse and sexual abuse of children by parents. Or parents' neglect of children's emotion, body and body, regardless of raising or teaching, indifference like strangers, will lead to insufficient mental health of children and easy to suffer from bipolar disorder.
3. Environmental factors, such as drug abuse, such as the decline of social and economic status, are also incentives for women to have children. Body hormones, body immunity and family environment will change before and after childbirth, which will become the inducement, so it is an additional risk for women.
In other words, just because you come from a happy family doesn't mean you won't suffer from bipolar disorder.
Now there is a very stable and safe drug treatment. The sooner the treatment is found, the more stable the disease can be controlled. The later, the easier it is for the disease to recur.
Moreover, it is necessary to prescribe the right medicine. If drugs are abused, the drugs are wrong, but it is easy to aggravate the condition.
How to get along with patients with bipolar disorder?
When we get along with bipolar patients, we will pay attention to the expression on his face. If you notice something is wrong, protect yourself and don't stimulate him.
2. Life: It can help them arrange their rest time reasonably, ensure adequate sleep, and encourage them to do some work and exercise.
As a social group, we have a better understanding of tolerance and acceptance. They are just sick, not wild animals.
Patients don't get sick all the time. When they are not sick, they are just like us normal people.
The so-called illness is not so different from normal people, because each of us will get sick. Physical illness should be taken care of, as well as mental illness.
The height of a society depends on its attitude towards the "weak".
A society with conscience and temperature can accept and tolerate all groups.
References:
Handbook of Diagnosis and Statistics of Mental Disorders (5th Edition), American Psychiatric Association, Peking University Press, 20 14.