Drastic Mood Disorders

Most people don't realize they had a bipolar disorder, due to the symptoms are not easily detected. This makes the number of bipolar events are very high, higher than schizophrenia. In dr. Soetomo Public Hospital, Surabaya, East Java, there are 10% among patients who seek treatment, suffered from bipolar disorder.

Bipolar is a mood disorder, or feeling up and down drastically. Bipolar can be suffered by any person, male or female. The symptoms often appear at the age of 15 to 24 years. There are two phases in bipolar:

Manic Phase
Occurs in people who could not control their energetic activities, high in motivation, high in self-confidence, and has too much to talk, because his brain is full of great ideas. But there are negative sides, which had some impact on them, such as doing foolish actions, that will lead them to become carelessness, never think twice before making an important decision, driving a car too fast, and also less concerned to people around them.

Depressive Phase
On the contrary to Manic Phase, where they feel very lazy to do anything, skipping school, missing work, hesitate to express ideas due to low of self-confidence, always feel sad, and always in trouble with people around them. Patients with depressive phase are able to say their intention to commit a suicide.

Someone may also experience manic and depressive phases at the same time. According to JawaPos interview with dr. Handoko Daeng SpKJ(K), mental specialist, the cause of bipolar is multy-factors and multy-genetics. "Genetic influence on bipolar incidence only 79%," he said.

Not all patients who experience too many stress, suffered from bipolar. "Me and another psychiatrist who must deal with many patients everyday, will also get stress. But we all didn't suffer from bipolar, " said Handoko. It may take people's understanding to know more about bipolar, and more concern to the people around them, in order to detect the bipolar disease early.

My other value related articles:

1. Frustrated Inc.
2. New Personality to Banish Bad Memories
3. Notice on The Silent Alarm Around You

Frustrated Inc.

Let Your Dim Light Shine album by Soul Asylum

Misery, everyone must have felt, at least once in a lifetime. I wrote this post after listening to the song from Soul Asylum - Misery. By being such thing, often made someone so desperated to keep on continuing to do anything. Have no desire on anything. Life's so boring.

Actually, it was you, the one who made your own misery. Broken heart? Does it make your life misery? No, it was not. You are the one who thinks your life would be miserable after being dump by your lover. Life is not that short. You should remember this.

A drop of mother's tear is worth than a cup of lover's tear

Does your mother cry to see you were being dump by your ex? Then why should you cry? Does your mother feel sad to see you sad? Well. She must have been. But enough is enough, sad for today is only for today. There are many beautiful lifes await you for tomorrow.

I read about the news lately, there was a couple of boy and girl who celebrated Valentine moment, ended with a suicide done by the boy. The boy's friend had already noticed that he was going to kill himself and his girlfriend on the Valentine's Day. Valentine's Day is a death day, said the boy to his friend, on the day before he found hang himself on the wood, next to his girlfriend body lying on the ground, with severe injuries found on her neck.

Desperate people really have no standpoint! As said by Soul Asylum on the song lyric, ..we created the cure, we made the disease.. So, it was you who can cure yourself, not your mom or even your shrink. Talk to someone would be better. It will reduced the heavy burdent that you are carrying.

Make yourself busier is another way to help you forget your misery. But before doing that, you must forgive yourself! You cannot forget anything without forgiving yourself. No matter if you are right or wrong, the very first thing to do is to forgive yourself.

Have a nice weekend!!

Notice on The Silent Alarm Around You

Do not ever underestimate, if your close friend, brother, sister, or your relatives says, " I just want to die ". Sometimes, we are less concerned about our society, if there's someone who says so, infact most people even criticize, " You must not talk like that. As if You don't believe in God ". Until suddenly, one day people found his/her body hanging.

Just like this famous Korean artist, Jang Ja-yeon.

Her death became hot news around the world since 2009. A suicide note left by Jang Ja-yeon, describes how she was beaten and forced, to entertain and have sex, with several program directors, CEOs, and media executives. Jang Ja-yeon had been suffering from clinical depression, and had received medical treatment for her illness, during the past year. That note describes her main source of clinical depression.

Jang Ja-yeon was found hanged at her home on March 7, 2009. She had already complained to her sister about the " overwhelming stress " she was having. She said, " to die ", to her sister by phone at the night she hang herself. Jang Ja-yeon's sister found her body hanging from the stairway banister. A police investigation concluded that her death was a suicide.

Many people commit suicide are consider a form of an experienced from their clinical severe depression. All their speech is not a joke, and it's a " Silent Alarm " to cry for help. All your advice is not what they need. By assisting, and hearing their complains, that are forms of help that they are needed. Do not even criticize or blame everything they had done. It will only be assured them, that if no one wants to understand them.

God has gave us two ears and one mouth for us, to listen more than talk. So listen to them! If someone suffers from clinical depression, their mindset will be distorted. All your words would meaningless to them.

The death rate from suicide more and more in this world. It also encourages the WHO to create a campaign to raise public awareness for prevention. Suicidal ideation is an important issue of medical-psychiatric. There's so much life to live, care for each other!