Bipolar Disorder | Animated Short Film

The film was produced by the RCPsych Public Engagement Committee in conjunction with Damn Fine Media.

[CristiandlfDeval]

I could remember several years ago, I suffered severe depression and mental disorder. Was actually diagnosed with BPD. Not until my wife recommended me to psilocybin mushrooms treatment. Psilocybin treatment saved my life honestly. 8 years totally clean. This is something that really need to be use globally to help people with related health challenges.

[VictoriaElizabethTV]

manic episodes make me think more creatively, i find them to be helpful at times

[emilytedford]

I change moods throughout the day sometimes I’m manic other times I’m in a deeply depressed mood

[wienerdog]

Does anyone else just hate the fact that they are diagnosed with bipolar disorder I just hate it. I just want to cry and cry, but I can’t. It’s like I can’t show my emotions because people will think I’m going through another episode. I just have to hold it in and suck it up.

[oliobgmoti-bulgaria]

I'm scared of this thing. I don't want it. I really hope that i am not bipolar, i just want to be normal

[PoPo-tntp]

Straight up I go to self harm when having a depressive episode, but when I’m back I can never see myself doing anything like that. Feels like shit, and when I see the marks I always go “ oh shit, yeah I did that, didn’t I.”

[noneofyourbusiness]

Optimism? I wish. More like uncontrollable anxious anger/frustration.

[cpnstbn]

Nobody ever does a good job of explaining it, which adds to the stigma I think. It’s not just periods of low or high. It’s impulsivity, it’s contradictory emotions experienced simultaneously, to be excited and depressed at once. So hard to explain

[AhmetMurati]

I have a friend with dépression, when he was feeling the worst as soon I arrived from capital city to my home city I went to his home a picked him up for a long walk. Often that walk helped him. In one day even his voice was thicker but during my discussion with him after 45 minutes his voice returned to the original voice of him. So, having a friend that takes care about yourself while having depression is very important. But sadly not everyone has a friend.

[StigmaFreeMentalHealthSociety]

You are forgetting that bipolar disorder is not just about being happy and sad. Many of us are stable for many or long periods of time. Also it is actually mood changes, and defining it as mood swings can be a non-impactful way to describe our illness. Good video though and keep up the good work!!! Great animation and approach!

[lunacresa]

My brother is bipolar, one week feeling depressed he tried to kill himself the next week he truly believes he is God's prophet and that he is sent to cleanse the world. I am very scared of him

[fzelhazmiri]

my mother doesn't beliee in mental illiness at all nor my family I always feel really depressed without having anyone to chear me up and when I decided to tell her what I feel she started yelling and screaming at me and now I've started to hurt myself and it's the only thing that makes me relieve my pain along with listening to heavyy music

[exnihilonihilfit]

Sometimes I feel we are in simulation and everybody acts like they also know this situation. Then I take some lithuril and they stop acting and everybody becomes normal.

[JuliusMuniesa]

The more I study this the more I'm aware of that I've learned to control this, without even knowing it... I'm amazed... seriously sometimes I get so angry but I managed to control it, weed helps alot . peace

[justicehooser]

I love that I can relate to everyone in the comment section :)

[lexilaughren]

This video was lovely and helpful. I'm recently diagnosed and this will be super helpful to share with family and friends. Great content ❤

[Julie-iitl]

I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and when I'm not manic, I'm depressed, and when I'm manic, my symptoms of mania are severe but only last like 2-5 days. I don't know what type of bipolar disorder I have but some doctor's think I have rapid-cycling bipolar while others don't believe in rapid cycling and think I have bipolar 2, or that I'm not used to being happy and that's why whenever I feel happy, my levels are through the roof. But I know whatever it is, it feels like more than just being plain old happy. It feels like my energy is bubbling up inside me and I'm gonna explode. Sometimes I have a sense that something's up when I'm manic because it happens for no apparent reason, but I get so wrapped up in thoughts and ideas that I wasn't able to pursue when I was depressed and now I have all this energy and I don't know what to do with it. A lot of times I start many projects that I can't finish. Sometimes I experience mixed episodes where I start to feel myself drift off from my high and I start to have depressive thoughts that I try to suppress so I can stay on my high, but it's different than depression because I have the energy to act on depressive thoughts and as mania overpowers depression for the most part, I start to think that suicide or any form of harm to my body is a good idea and in the moment I'll feel strangely happy thinking about it.

[rolandviado]

0:28 this scene is all too familiar (dog included) 😔

[roserusso]

I get distracted easily but by my own will. It’s like I’m trying to ignore something and when someone breaks that cycle I get unnecessarily mad and I squeeze my hands into fists like I’m gonna hit something. My mom assures me I just have depression bc I don’t like to tell her about how angry I get. I’ve always been a very clam person and even when I’m angry I never do anything, it’s just blood boiling, maybe I’ll raise my voice you know.

[josephramos]

The people around me want to convince me it’s all in my head. They all want to expect the best so I give in and pretend I’m okay. I’m not okay, I hear constant voices in my head telling me how worthless I am, I have really really high highs and deep DEEP lows and sometimes they happen within the same minute. The constant anxiety. the crippling depression