Different types of Mental Illnesses |
Bipolar mood disorder
Bipolar mood disorder is when you have times when you are up and energized and happy and times when you are feeling down and depressed. This means that you could be out with your friends having a good time and then you suddenly just turn sad. This means that you might lose a lot of your friends because they would not want to be with someone that is always feeling down in the dumps. this can lead to depression and depression can lead to people committing suicide. In teens in Australia aged 16-24 years, it is estimated that approximately 3.2% of males and 3.6% of females have had bipolar disorder in their lifetime