Bi-Polar Disease In the USA, we usually deal with the mentally ill by locking the victims of mental illnesses up for a crime that they have committed because their disease was left untreated (i.e. vagrancy). Bi-polar disease is schizophrenia. The disease is characterized by shifts between episodes of mania and depression. And sometimes becoming delusional. I believe that when there is an excess of a fear chemical released in the brain it causes a flight or fight response (i.e. paranoia). If the person suffering from the disease is naturally aggressive the fight response kicks in and he may become confrontational. If the person suffering from the disease is more passive they respond with the flight response, therefore getting depressed, (i.e. going to bed and pulling the blankets over their head.) When the person is experiencing this unfounded fear they may try to assign a reason for their fear, thereby imagining things that may not be true, thus becoming delusional. The victim may imagine that people are working against him in someway or another. When people who have this disease are severely handicapped they have a difficult time functioning. The simplest things are difficult. For example, If someone who was severely handicapped, living on the street was trying to get their medicine (Prozac) and they didn’t have proper identification or a birth certificate, they wouldn’t be able to get a medical card or even figure out how to catch the bus at the right time to keep their appointments at the welfare office or doctor. Sometimes going to jail is the only way they can get everything straighten out.
Bipolar is not Schizophrenia! My ex was schizo-affective and that's a whole different deal; I'm supposedly bipolar and the two are very distinctive!! Who would give a bipolar prozac which can make you manic? NO, we tend to get the tranquilizer drugs.
