"The Study of Bipolar Disorder is the Study of Humanity"
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- "I personally love engaging and working with people that have bipolar disorder. I think it's one of the most rewarding fields of medicine to study, and I feel incredibly privileged to study this illness" - Dr. Melvin McInnis, Research Director, Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Fund.
In this video, Dr. McInnis discusses how he collaborates with scientists across disciplines to develop new models to understand and treat bipolar disorder. He shares key insights gained from various research projects involving stem cells, mobile technologies, and the micro biome.
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I have bipolar disorder. Thank you so much for this video. Love, everyone battling mental illness.
Me too have🤗
Bro I need your help.I am preparing for neet 2023 .I am suffering
from bipolar disorder.But i don't take medications .please tell me if I take medications will it affect my studies or not ?Please reply I'm waiting for your reply.
@@vijayneet8242 it wipl effect 😪😪
As someone who's lived with bipolar most of my life a lot of this resonated with me. Before a major car accident 6 years ago I would have presented as Bipolar 2, However it seems PTSD compounded my mental health and has exacerbated my bipolar tendancies. In my cycles of mania I feel like I get it, you know? the whole meaning of life and can peer behind the curtain, and laugh. But when people can't meet me there I cry. I crash back down to earth. I become withdrawn and katatonic, as if it was all an illusion. These cycles seem to come every 7 weeks or so, some worse than others. There are time when I seem to 'level out' and I'm simply numb, I am however in those times what some might consider 'normal'. I am highly productive in these moments of clarity which is the only reason I have managed to hold down a job (that and a very understanding employer). It's a horrible disease, wouldn't wish it on anyone. I do however think it is empowering to know that it is just a cycle, the manic/ depressive episodes will pass, eventually. The only gift it has burdened me with is creativity! Musical therapy has helped me through the nights that I thought I might end it all, would highly recommend. I know I can speak only to my experience, so please don't feel generalisied by what I have written.
I hope everyone who took the time to read this is okay, keep fighting and don't give up. You're loved more than you realize and this world is a better place with you in it.
Thank God for people researching this illness that I very nearly died from a few years ago. I am so thankful for my medications and great doctor.
Me too. I’m glad your okay.
Glad you’re still here. Take care.
as a high achieving person diagnosed with bipolar 1 disorder - I wish modern treatment was geared towards reaching my true capabilities of creative/intuitive production. I don't want to fit into society...YAWN
Don’t you want the best of both worlds? To be able to fit into society as a respectful and controlled individual to be able to have healthy relationships while also being able to work frantically with intensity, creativity and urgency?
To the people commenting saying he sounds "manic", where do you hear mania? He seems highly intelligent and focused. I don't hear pressured speech.
M J you sound paranoid
Busy Bee x you sound manic your rambling on
Busy Bee x it was a joke but ok thank you 🙏🏻☺️
My gf was bipolar... I can cleary say that he is not bipolar
@@tirukotisuraj your gf may sense a little more about the guy than you have. What does she say about this doctor?
Does Bipolar serve a bio-evolutionary or psycho-evolutionary purpose we are missing?
How can so much genius, innovation, creativity and in modernity what we call 'madness' or 'illness', stem from this particular psychopathology?
I doubt the first question by a lot my dear Nietzsche.
It is canalisation, I think many people "suffered" mania when they have created extraordinary stuff. The last supper by Da Vinci for example, how do you draw shit like this, the level of energy you have to put into this massive piece of art is beyond madness. When you are in mania though, you have, seemingly, so much energy that you think you are going to explode. Normal needs like sleep are barely noticeable anymore, your brain is extremely quick with whatever it does. The issue here is, you are not really rational anymore, if you ever was in the first place. Whatever you feel doing right now will be what you do, obsessively. Reason becomes secondary, acting mandatory. If you are able to somehow force this state on a particular subject, you are going to archive ridiculous progress in a short time. But that is wishful thinking, this is rather possible if you have hypomania, you don't lose total control over yourself. You are high-functioning. This all is a devils bid though, the cost for this amount of energy is lifetime. If you barely sleep for 7 days while you are doing a crazy amount of whatever, your body suffers a great deal, doing as much as your bones start aching when the phase is over.
@@Spasstiful Interesting.. Canalisation is just one theory to explain the complexity of Evolutionary, Biological and Developmental Robustness.
Even among the scientific literature one could easily infer that 'nature selects' for Bipolar, no?
And if 'nature selects' for it, why? What does 'nature know' and 'select for' that we are missing?
during my first semester of college my long term girlfriend called it quits and i got super depressed.
i was already kinda sad as i spent 8th grade and most of my first 3 years of high school being a drug dealer and dealing with my father being in jail for sex offense charges.
i struggled with knowing why he was where he was and believing all i would ever be good at is hustling in the streets and being a mediocre city kid.
i had several instances where i would sit on my floor with a shotgun in my mouth wondering when i’d build the courage to pull that trigger, but morality is funny that way and the thought of that being how i go filled me with guilt and shame.
after the break up i decided to ask my primary physician for help and she recommended me to a psychiatrist as well as a psychologist.
after 6 or so months of speaking to them both twice a month on a month to month basis, they diagnosed me with bipolar disorder.
i didn’t pay much mind to it as the antidepressants (citalopram) they prescribed made me feel great.
not only was i getting ready to go back to school, i was working out, single, and surrounded by friends who cared about me.
unfortunately, the citalopram had side effects i was rather embarrassed about so i talked to my psychiatrist and they started throwing new medications left & right at me with little to no success.
soon after they told me they wanted me to take a mood stabilizer which had side effects such as intense fatigue and drowsiness. i didn’t particularly enjoy this feeling as i had to take 2 of them twice a day everyday with a meal.
after all that nonsense i decided to not only stop taking my meds, but drop my psychiatrist and speak more to my psychologist.
that was almost a year ago and now i see neither, and am on the search for my own meaning and purpose.
i’m not sure what’s wrong with me but finding this video made me feel a bit better about myself, thanks science
Dude I feel ya buddy
im 19 and was recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder after years of dealing with other mental illness including a personality disorder. but i felt somewhat comforted by this comment. a huge part of dealing with mental illness is treatment, and people fail to realize how intense the side effects can be or how they’re working together. i’ve been through so many different medication combinations i’m just tired. i’m sick of never knowing how a pill is going to make me feel the next day. i’m sick of being so unstable that i even need pills in the first place. and then i wonder if i should ditch the meds and seek a natural cure, and then i just fall right back into a spiraling cycle to where it gets so bad that i need meds. i’m sick of trying to mold myself to fit into the construct of society when everything in my body wants me to go off the rails. but even though my mental illness seems to be ruining my life…i don’t want to be cured. for some reason, i don’t want help. It’s like an alternate reality, living in my mind. it feels like doctors want to rip that away from me to “function in society” which really just means consuming outrageous amounts of lithium and spending big bucks to sit on a couch and talk about it. Am i to continue my life this way forever? is there an end to this without suicide? it seems i will never know. i pray for everyone who feels like me, who struggles with this
Fuck. And I was just about to admit I need medication.
I think the worst thing Dr. McInnis implies is that bipolar people are not healthy. Just looking at this comment section proves that there are some very intelligent, thoughtful bipolar people who want to discuss their lives in a competent manner.
5:39 They might very well be on to something.
I noticed that in my manic episodes i talk louder and my voice is deeper, even a bit raspy some times.
While depressed i'm quiet to the point of people asking me couple times to speak louder.
Me too. Over the years I've noticed how my voice changes depending on the episode/mood state. The sound of my laugh changes as well...When I'm manic I speak so loudly, fast, and have so many ideas connecting together. My laugh is very high pitched. I misuse words all of the time too. When depressed I talk slower and lower, and the tone of my voice is just..different. My laugh isnt much more than a low grunt. Makes me feel really insecure sometimes because I imagine how confusing it must be to others at times, but I cant control it.
I appreciate the brilliant arguments and the research, but there is a bit of dissonance here for me. How can something that makes you experience the full range of humanity be just a disorder? Why is change and seeing your different aspects wrong? For the people who are suffering and want to get back to who they were I totally sympathize, but some of us want to embrace the transformation with all its positive and negative aspects.
“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
― Carl Jung
You're essentially asking for a mind and body that can go into extreme states at any time. It's a disorder, because it is not typical of the human brain, and is not the healthiest state at which the brain should be.
@@OscarASevilla It's not "typical" for the human brains of people who don't have the disorder. Very typical of those who do. Sure it aint healthy, but its part of who a person is. We go in and out of these extreme swings like no ones fucking business, not that crazy an idea. If some chose to accept it and not suppress it then that means they have the will to do so. The unhealthy part would be not coping properly.
BPD isn't a club for quircky misunderstood people that love too hard. It's a very real disorder with very real symptoms. Communities that take on their illnesses as their whole identities are idiots at best, and dangerous at worst. We aren't special, and the world has no duty to treat us as such.
@@orfordewerson Personally I think you're wrong. No ones saying make a special club for all the people with bipolar disorder. You're exaggerating real concerns. If this is the way we are, from birth, then we shouldn't let people tell us we're not feeling things genuinely. Its more extreme, the problem is coping. If more people were more excepting and understanding it would be less of a problem to fix, and more of a recognized legitimate way of being. With better ways to manage and deal, rather than suppress and forget and fall in line with everyone else
@@orfordewerson I agree. But, neither has the world any right to hurt us in anyways. One way or another nothing is fair. Ethics are philosophies, which can be molded by logics. They have faults...mental illness isn't fair, and so aint 'not having it.' I wish everyone had it. I know mental illness isnt fair and many people pretend like they have cause media has actually made it look a lot cooler than it actually is, but, for people who actually have it, they have no one around them who would understand what they have; People around them think that they are making it all up, It sucks: not finding people who would understand. And not finding way out of it. So a few portion of the people who are seeking attention pretending illness, lies a bunch of people who actually have them. In fact, some of them don't even understand what psychologist mean when they say 'normal'. Give them a day when things are perfect ('normal'), and they will still find/create holes in it and find reasons to be depressed about it or get overhyped about things. Cause that's how they think normal is. I know we aint special, that the world has billions of homo sapiens like us, that the life has no point and we will all vanish one day into oblivion and earth has no duty towards us to treat us as special, but, at least we hope it dont treat us unfair.
Oblivion bless us those who have been through it all.
I wish I could be used as a experiment with my bi polar disorder. It could help me greatly to be constantly studied and learning about the illness.
Schindawg Same here, my ideal job is to be a test subject and be observed for research for bipolar treatments.
@@i_am_processing_ that seems to be its own disorder though
Accuser/Opposer what disorder are you referring to?
Thank you for humanizing the topic Dr McInnis! ☺️ BTW, you are awesome - and cute!
lol
It is a developmental disorder.. I never felt like other kids growing up..but as an adult I really hope there is more medicine to help..
Your a genius and i'm so glad i found your video.
I would love to speak with the people conducting this research. I have been diagnosed bipolar 14 years, half of my life. Inherited and well as high levels of In utero trauma even with military documentation from trauma overseas. This video spoke to me and would love any kind of information you can share from this research if you happen to have a link. Please.
I am now off seroquel I feel slightly better now. This happened once I told my doctor seroquel made me want to quit college and not go out to talk with people because I felt awful. Im a little better taking Lithium 900mg plus busbar only now.
These efforts at scientific understanding and disease detection are commendable and could lead to new drugs. But, from the patient's point of view, a certain stability is best achieved by active self-observation, aided by the description and vocabulary of books and articles on the disease, which, by the way, are not enough (only literature teaches to describe things ). - It is necessary to understand two things: that the symptoms are multiple and seem to be mismatched; that illness is both a physical problem and a "behavioral" problem, that is, it rests on basic, healthy human impulses that we call "mania" (impulse to expand) and "depression" (impulse for self-preservation). (I took this from summaries of general psychiatry by Lipot Szondi.) Thus, a bipolar depressive person needs to perceive, name, memorize and relate their symptoms, such as: I perceive the symptoms of intense physical fatigue; that of mild physical fatigue, accompanied by affective aversion to something; and of pure and simple affective aversion to something - symptoms that, in fact, are 'degrees' of the 'same' symptom, and not different symptoms, and that modulate or equalize themselves, like the various knobs on a studio table, which can go up or down. (By the way, these symptoms 'seem to' occur to people who are untreated or whose treatment is recent.) And the same for all other symptoms as they arise. With regard to "behaviours", there is a tension between manic attitudes, thoughts and feelings and, on the other hand, depressive attitudes, thoughts and feelings. They are not fluid in the bipolar; they are not a force ready to be used or restrained; but they are forces that move with difficulty, like a car that came completely dented from the factory and can only drag itself through the streets. This is his spontaneity (but note: this spontaneity is the person, a human being, which is why not everything is "chemical", "physiological", "cellular", because there is a human being there: this is sometimes called "mixed state", as if it were not a human reaction that took place "inside" a "crumpled car"!). It is important to balance the two poles of tension: for example, not allowing important commitments (such as studying at a university) to be abandoned because of unpleasant or stressful situations that arouse depressive impulses (those of giving up and withdrawing), which are quite dissuasive at first, but then hardly surmountable. - I think that "scientists" are excessively "scientific", "mathematicians", "statisticians": they are far from describing what a simple bipolar person is capable of.
Well said.
I was on 1500mg of Lithium and 10mg of Zyprexa per day. It was like trying to run my way out of a grave. Long story short, I survived.
What do you mean exactly?
@@haydenboisvert3738 zyplexa sucks
I’ve suffered from bipolar for quite a while now. I’m too scared to get on meds. My life has never been stable and my impulse control is slipping. From the moment I wake up I feel like I’m being torn apart from the inside out physically. Does anyone have any insight or experience on cognitive behavior therapy? Or a good experience with any meds?
I suffered from bipolar for a while and wanted to exhaust all options before taking meds. Thankfully, I found the carnivore diet which has put me into remission for the past 18 months. I would highly recommend looking up "Amber O Hearn" or "Carrie Brown" on CZcams - they've both put their bipolar into remission with carnivore / keto diets. All the best
Professor, you are describing methods how to analyze patient that you are developing in university and I was thinking similar thoughts glad to hear that there are already some indications to predict human behaviour of there speach, although hard to admit these techniques may influence perspectives of human being by catoryzing him, and I am afraid that we are going to this direction, hopefully knowledge will be used for humanity not decreasing individuals growth pitentional. I think we should go to direction where we improve individual as part in society, not looking at the society as 1 structure. But I see your intelegence is a way a head and I think this advancements made will improve our society and each individual in it 😊I wish you luck! 🤞
I wish we had the same level of interest and professionalism in Belgium. People barely know what you're talking about if you say you have Bipolar Disorder
Great video!
Thankyou for your work sir. It is appreciated.
Love a Bipolar Ohio guy
This guy needs a podcast
The disorder in that case has been w us forever. It's a problem not due to the symptoms, but how society is changing and becoming less tolerant towards emotions.
Not at all. Bipolar affects a person's productivity. Its a living hell mentally. A bipolar person is not sound in mind....
Amazing
I have conflicting feelings about being bipolar. On one end, I want to feel "stable", but on the other end, I wonder if I'm just becoming a sheep in the herd.
I have bipolar myself and found that very helpful
I took part in one of those computer based voice analysis programs. Very interesting idea. I wonder if it’s effective.
1:43 “Induced pluripotent skin cell project”: Why is that not available as as clinical diagnostic for bipolarism? That could have saved me years of suffering...
*stem cell
Because it’s not cheap, at all. Also, it takes many weeks! It just doesn’t make sense to have it as a diagnostic tool, unfortunately.
I've had bipolar my entire life with co morbidity ptsd from getting smashed by a car when i was 8 from an impulsive decision to ride my skateboard into traffic that to this day I dont understand, I wasnt suicidal. My entire family on my fathers side has it. The worst part about the mania for me is no impulse control doing things and I have no reasonable explanation for. Than going back into the depression and struggling to remember what I did and why during the manic part.
What does that mean productive? Do as we say?
Hey Michigan U, would you like my skin sample?
I'm just so tired. I'm tired of being married and alone. I'm tired of believing my sense of justice is a disease. I'm tired of believing when I'm hurt it's a disease. I'm just tired.
Please help me doc
Omygosh, my Mom always said this to me as a child until she passed away in 2015. Seriously. But I am a she. Thank you for this education. Interesting. (Bp1) It is a developmental disorder in the brain?
I am suffering from bipolar disorder ......hate my life
Hang in there.
Some day we will find a perfect way to have it under control. Till then, keep hope alive. Sending love your way
I have it to, I won't give up, but life is indeed hell and I would be lying if I said I don't want out.
Look up 5 biotypes of depression by bill walsh
Help me.
Please look into Anti parasites
If ur episodes happen during phases of the moon
Its connected to parasites
Personal experience we treated our Family member with Anti Parasites after major Psychosis event
Biopolar does not always have signs since early childhood. It can appear much later. Please don’t see people with biopolar as lab mice. People with biopolar can function as well as people without biopolar.
People with biopolar just have an extra work therefore they are hero. I still thank you for your video and being a scientist and devoting your time to this community
i english is poor .if chinese is veryhappy
All this talks on lithium. Man these doctors should try it. Take it for some years. Waste of humanity.
You have failed to understand
A lot of smart people are bipolar. Don’t get it twisted.
All humans experience such ups and downs. In order to fix many mental health issues, we need to weed down the population. A hectic world full of idiots truly adds to this, or creates it.
lmfao, is this guy manic?
Sam Eash I hope so! Perhaps a bipolar researcher has superior insight into the disorder, no?
@@OnerousEthic Bipolar scientists are paradigm shifters. We need more of them.
@@iemgote7249 Yes yes YES the world needs bipolar dreamers, doers, and healers AKA bipolar Shamen. Bipolar Shamen unite!
I will be your bipolar shaman for the day
@@iemgote7249 Amen to that! I really wanted to be a neuroscientist, but I gave up on that pipe dream as it took me years to get my meds right. My inevitable crashes alway shot my proverbial wheels off...sadly.
He seems manic.