Depression Treatment Care

Question by TeQuest: Re-ask, How destructive can an adult suffering manic-depression be to others?
What I would like to know is, how destructive can this behavior become for others, worst case scenario?

Best answer:

Answer by The Fleabag
I suppose the behaviour could compell someone to kill the person with the disorder, worst case scenario of course. I have bipolar (manic depression) and I know that if the people in my life are not educated not only about the disorder but about how I react and behave because of it, then I tend to be far too large a burdon emotionally for others to handle.

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I’ve read that depression for sufferers of manic-depression (”bi-polar”) is painful. Painful in what way? I get mildly depressed from time-to-time, but I wouldn’t call it “painful.” If you can describe it, What is it like?
After reading “Divine Madness (Ten Stories of Creative Struggle)”, which chronicles what Lenny Bruce, Judy Garland, Ernest Hemingway, Charles Mingus, Marilyn Monroe, Vaslav Nijinsky, Sylvia Plath, Mark Rothko, Brian Wilson, and Virginia Woolf endured as a result of their depression and/or mental illness, I couldn’t believe how miserable their episodes made their lives. Oddly, the book fails to describe what their episodes were like–this is why I’ve posed this question.

I am generally “down” and have a really hard time motivating and getting into a productive “mode.” I also feel that my life is a completely tragic disaster. But, sometimes I just get so fed up with things that I “lose it” and go off on people. Does this sound like mania, or related to depression? I am trying to guage whether I am simply depressed, or bipolar.

any suggestions? I’ve heard to try St. John’s Wort