Looking for mania in the news. I’m often interviewed when people with mental health symptoms find themselves in the public eye. Reading news stories and looking for the underlying mental health possibilities of someone’s behavior also helps me hone my intuition for working with coaching clients who aren’t sure what is happening with a loved one. I will give you an example. Read the following article and let me know your thoughts on the situation. I will then tell you mine.
I mean this seriously and am not mocking this man. I feel that we often look at behavior and attribute it to drinking and ‘arrogance,’ when the behavior could very well be mania. I’m lucky there were no camera phones around before I was diagnosed. One article called him the World’s Biggest Douchebag. Hmm. Misogynistic and thoughtless. I don’t know about you, but I’m a right jackass when I’m manic.
If you’re a loved one of a person with bipolar disorder, how often have you seen this kind of behavior when someone is manic?
Julie
I also have to add a comment about travel- we often get sick when we travel. As you may know, I just moved to Europe and can tell you that the stress of airports alone can make us have mood swings!
