Bi-polar disorder - Regina Njogu Diaspora Leading lawyer shares her exprience

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This disorder I susspect afflicts some of my family members to certain level. We are loners we do well when others are not in our way. We have very rapid mood swings from being easy going to a raving mad in a split second. We are very irritable especially when extremely tired and sleepy. Ours is very mild but I saw a two cases. One was a friend, she would explode in a drop of a hat. She finally got to many fights and arrest records that she had to be deported. It does not matter who it is, she is the kind that a gun has to be kept out of sight when she gets unhinged. Then my buddy sister, very smart, a former executive at a leading university admissions department but she lost it all due to Bi-polar. To self treat she started binge drinking and doing drugs now she is a hopeless case

http://www.mwakilishi.com/content/blogs/2016/03/23/my-struggle-with-bipolar-a-personal-confession.html

Hope this woman lands on two feet

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Bipolar is bad news.  I also think there is an issue of overdiagnosis.  Especially among bazungu.  My neighbor takes her 10 year old son for therapy sessions because he is shy, like a lot of kids his age.

[Globalcitizen12]

I do not think there is over diagnosis. We Africans sometimes let problems go unattended for a longtime. I think in the Kenyan community there are a lot of bi-polar cases that have gone unattended and are just wished away as indiscipline. With Kids especially autism you can know if you have a kid when something is wrong. I have seen Kenyans try to fight diagnosis think that kids will out grow autism. Americans on the other hand grown believing in medicine and therapy. so they will seek intervention as soon as they know there is a problem.