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Thread #94828   Message #1838635
Posted By: Fibula Mattock
19-Sep-06 - 05:26 PM
Thread Name: BS: 'Secret Life of the Manic Depressive'
Subject: BS: 'Secret Life of the Manic Depressive'
Has anyone watched the (UK) BBC2 documentary just now about bipolar disorder? Stephen Fry, who has manic depression, did a wonderful job talking about how he deals with his illness, and talked to others about how their lives are affected by it. I was diagnosed with manic depression last year, and tonight's documentary was a hugely accuarte description of what I've been through. Just thought I'd start a thread on it because it's reckoned that 1 in 100 people suffer from this, and severe mental illness is usually quite stigmatised, so here's a thread to flag it up.