It often happens that during a conversation, a moody person is called bipolar. In the media, some artists talk about their bipolar disorders, without anyone really knowing what they cover.
Far from these clichés, bipolarity, which before was called manic-depression, is a chronic mental illness, which plunges the patient into periods of mania and depression alternately. It is a serious illness if left untreated, which can lead to suicide. It is estimated that approximately 3 to 4% of the population is affected by bipolar disorder. How is bipolarity diagnosed? What are the symptoms ? How to treat this disease? How are these mood disorders experienced by those around you?
To answer these questions, Geraldine Mayr and the Dr Jimmy Mohamed receive the Professor Pierre Alexis Geoffroy, he is a psychiatrist at the Bichat hospital in Paris. He published Knowledge to cure: bipolar disorders published by Ellipses editions. He presents to us the specificities of bipolaritydifficulties in establishing a diagnosis and the treatments that exist today to treat it.
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