| Bipolar disorder is theorized to be an evolutionary | | | | illnesses to be a flaw in moral character. |
| adaptation to colder climates, therefore it should come | | | | For this reason, biphasic mental illness was not |
| as no surprised that this illness has a recorded history | | | | rediscovered until 1854, by the French doctor Jules |
| going back 2000 years. It used to be that everyone | | | | Baillarger, who described the differences between |
| who wasn't normal was just called crazy or they may | | | | mania and depression, and how they shifted in persons |
| have been considered to be possessed by evil spirits, | | | | with the illness. |
| as mental illnesses weren't well understood long ago. | | | | Emil Kraepelin was a German psychiatrist and the first |
| The words "depression" and "mania" have their origins | | | | to term the illness "manic depressive psychosis." He |
| in Ancient Greek, and by 100 AD Ephesus, a Greek | | | | observed patients with periods of extreme depression |
| historian, described depression and mania linked into | | | | and mania, intermixed with periods that were symptom |
| one disease. It was not until 1025 that Avicenna, who | | | | free. |
| was a Persian physician, identified a number of mental | | | | It was not until 1948 that a treatment plan was devised |
| disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar, and mania. | | | | for bipolar disorder. Lithium carbonate was developed |
| With the stigma of mental disorder, any research into | | | | by Dr. John Cade of Melbourne, Australia, offering |
| this illness largely went unnoticed. After all, most | | | | hope to those suffering from a disease that had been |
| individuals didn't want to be classified as mentally | | | | stigmatized for thousands of years. |
| insane, and most would have considered mental | | | | |