My brother in law was recently diagnosed with bi polar after going into a very extreme manic episode.
No one in the family every saw this coming and it feels like it came out of nowhere for a guys who's about to turn 30.
Not directly suicide related (thankfully he hasn't yet shown any signs of those thoughts); but my eyes have been opened wide to what mental health issues are really like.
After spending many days in a psych ward and seeing what the inpatients are dealing with, I definitely have a better sense of how things like suicide would not be a choice at all.
The mind is incredibly powerful.
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