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6% Have your experiences with stigma caused you to think less about yourself or your abilities? 8% Do you try to avoid situations that may be stigmatizing to you? 8% Do you think people will think less of you if they know you have a mental illness? 62% Have your experiences with stigma affected your satisfaction with or quality of life? Have your experiences with stigma affected your ability to interact with your family? Have you felt that you have been treated unfairly or that your rights have been denied because you have a mental illness?
J —National Health Service, the health-care system of the United Kingdom. ulianna Shapiro knows from personal experience how difficult it can be to live with bipolar disorder. She has battled the illness for more than twenty years, and for the most part is able to keep it under control with medications. Still, she is not symptom free. Even now she sometimes has what she calls “breakthrough manias,” or manic episodes that come on despite the medications she takes to help prevent them. “None of us is perfect or impervious to the evils of this disorder,” she says.
Org. Pliszka is a child psychiatrist from San Antonio, Texas. 31 Facts and Illustrations Facts and Illustrations What Is Bipolar Disorder? 4 percent of adults worldwide suffer from bipolar disorder. • The NAMI states that bipolar disorder affects more than 10 million Americans. • According to the NIMH, at least half of all bipolar disorder cases start before the age of twenty-five. • The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reports that hospital stays for childhood bipolar disorder increased 434 percent from 1997 to 2010.