Desperate Cry of the Bipolar

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For Centuries depression has been seen as one of the most terrible mental conditions that can come over man. I want to say I believe Bipolar is much worse. The big problem with this kind of mental sickness is that people cannot see anything wrong with you. A man with a broken leg sporting a huge white plaster will be treated with a measure of sympathy, but the depressed person has no evidence to show. Therefore, even if much of the stigma of the earlier years has been removed, deep down people still feel the same about depressed people. The most common conception that they are just playacting. They are lazy and not willing to face their responsibilities and therefore they use depression as a handy excuse. The dilemma of the Bipolar is that he is subjected to very intense moods wings. When his mood goes up, he believes that he is healed, because he feels so well and full of energy and actually he can change the face of the world all alone. He then starts to live as if that can truly be done, and because Bipolars are usually creative and intelligent people, it succeeds for a while. People get confidence in them and life is looking rosy. The next moment, out of the blue, comes the low mood swing. Absolutely everything is turned around, and light and hope becomes the deepest despair and darkness. Here lies the problem. It is so hard for the normal human understanding to believe that this vibrantly happy and hardworking person has now all of a sudden turned into a complete failure. "But yesterday you were perfectly fine.'' they say.'' I see nothing wrong with you now! '' It is even more terrible for the Bipolar to accept the truth, that he has almost change into the opposite of what he was yesterday. He now has to work through the humiliation and total loss of reputation. And so the cycle repeats itself. Every time that the up time comes, the Bipolar finds himself so dramatically changed that he again and again believes that he is healed, just to face the terrible reality of the down time again when it comes. Therefore I hear a deeper desperation in the cry of the bipolar than in that of the depressed person. What is your experience?