Mental illness is an invisible illness, there are hardly few who can understand the issue a person is facing. Today we bring a story of an 8 year old kid and his suffering with bipolar disorder.
What is bipolar disorder??
Bipolar disorder is a state of mind with extreme highs and lows. It is also known as maniac depression, a mental illness that brings about changes in sleep, thinking, energy and behavior. If 'high' and 'low' are considered as two poles the situation is called bipolar.
Today's Story is about an 8 year old kid who was suffering from bipolar disorder. Well the strange factor is mental illness is stigmatized in the society we live in, the same happened to this kid. A bright kid loved by all till the age of 7, comes and tells his patents he wants to die, and he leaves his home.
Even his own parents failed to recognize the issue, they did everything they could as parents to give their son a normal life. Well, what is normal to others was not normal to the kid. The kid's bigger brother blamed his parents without even knowing the efforts they were putting in. Even the kid's well educated parents failed to provide the support.
He hated studies, routine academics and everything the so called normal people call normal. He was visibly sick of all this and bring an 8 year old no one considered this seriously. Even his school failed to provide the required support. After careful examinations kid was known to be suffering from Bipolar Disorder, Anxiety, ADHD.
People started judging the family, the kid's close friends separated from him and his school also disowned him. What is the problem here???
The problem is with the society who is not educated enough to understand mental illness, their expectations from anyone for that matter is a normal behavior. Well according to me there is nothing called normal behavior. It is a mistake to categorize normal behavior as average human behavior. Each person is different, we need to stop judging mental illness. You either know about and you talk, or else you shut up!!
After exactly 10 years after first being diagnosed with depression and spending years together at health centers. The boy even completed his high schooling like any other student but with high difficulty then went on to embrace photography to produce some amazing art work with lenses. He now runs his own business and is traveling the world with his work. The basic intention of this article is to tell you all that depression is not age restricted, it's not a sin to be depressed, do not judge anyone for their mental health state. Have compassion towards fellow human beings and their medical condition.
Below is the TEDx video which brig forward this story.... Narrated by the 8 year old kid's brother.
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