You aren't the only one suffering from bipolar disorder when you are the patient, you know.
Everyone around you suffers also.
They feel your pain when you are depressed, and they cannot endure being around you when you are manic.
The symptoms of the disease that you exhibit at these times do that to everyone.
You should be able to identify the rapid-fire speech pattern symptom of bipolar disorder that takes hold of the sufferer all of a sudden when they are about to go into their mania.
You might have been having a conversation with them and they are talking cool, and suddenly they might seem to go off.
Good time to call the doctor.
The contrast between the manic symptoms of bipolar disorder in a sufferer, and the depressive ones is what has allowed the condition to be tagged 'the fine madness.
' Quite sincerely, when you have to live with the patient yourself, the far extremes of the symptoms could very nearly drive you mad yourself.
Certain symptoms of this disorder in the manic state of the condition causes you to go off in so many directions when you are talking that people may find it hard to make sense of what you are trying to say.
Yet, your inflated sense of self-esteem may cause you to not care too much either way.
It is not an easy condition to live with but knowing as much about it and learning all there is to learn about how to control it can effectively keep it under control.