Bipolar disorder: the ‘stalking beast’

When I heard about the mood disorders study I got in touch straight away. I was diagnosed with bipolar in the mid-70s when I was 17. My symptoms first manifested themselves after my father died, when I was just 14. I was fostered at 15, and first sectioned aged 16. From then on I was on the psychiatric merry-go-round – hospitals, therapeutic communities, halfway houses – until I was 28.

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