Modern Health Observation

Bipolar disorder, its chronic, its risk of relapse and therapeutic needs is already trying to live every day: confidence faltering, the gene of life, emotional and sexual abuse for a large majority, and so on.

Unfortunately, it seems that the stigma and misunderstanding surrounding the majorise these difficulties, two thirds believe their troubles “sources of release, three quarters have been discriminated against directly related to their illness, work (50% !) from friends (44%) and family (36%).

It is time to change our view on these disorders, which are the expression of a genuine chronic illness and not a moody, a tendency to blues. Better public acceptance would reduce discrimination, but also facilitate the diagnosis, the delay prejudices. Finally, the opening of multidisciplinary centers planned in the coming years, should help optimize the management and thus improve the experience of the disease, which affects 1% of the French population.