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The kind of personality he describes does exist but it has little relation to bipolar disorder. Given how he defined the term, I suspect he is using the word b
by kayodelycaon 3y ago
The kind of personality he describes does exist but it has little relation to bipolar disorder.
Given how he defined the term, I suspect he is using the word bipolar in its general meaning of having two states.
Bipolar is a bit of a misnomer as is, multi-polar is a better descriptive what what the disorder actually is. There are not two states, there are several overlapping, non-exclusive “states”. (For example: mania and depression are not exclusive.)
- kdmccormick 3y agoEh, maybe it's coincidence, but I am Bipolar (type I) and I deeply relate to the personality type described by the article, including how the author relates ambition/boredom to mania/melancholia. Interestingly enough, I also had a favorite professor in college who mentored and looked out for me to a certain extent, who was big into Lisp and Haskell, and who was quite acquainted with bipolar disorder himself due to other people in his life.