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Originally posted by Hooligan
My thing with Ian is that we only get bits and pieces of him so, even though we know he's bipolar, how would one come to this assumption of he being depressed or bipolar? Any other person would think he's just on drugs but overall, the lack of development with this is baffling.
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Well, if one person is bipolar type 1, manic and depressive episode don't come in a day, and they don't change in a second. The writers want us to believe he's having a manic episode (to be diagnosed bipolar you don't need to have a depressive episode, one manic episode is enough), but like I said they're not making a good job. He just looks messed up. I'll believe it more if they want him to be bipolar type 2, those don't have manic episode (which are psychotic) but rather they have hypomanic episodes, which are not psychotic, basically just very talkative, creative, energetic, etc.
I remember one of my Psychiatry teachers in med school told us what a manic episode feels like for a bipolar type 1person. He asked us if we know the feeling one person gets at a football game when our team scores a touchdown and you get up and scream and feel unstoppable. We said yes, and then he told us that's how a manic episode is like but it doesn't last 10 seconds. It lasts days or weeks. I mean...
Ian doesn't look anything like that.