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History of Bipolar Disorder
The documented history of bipolar disorder dates back to ancient Greece over 2,000 years ago. Even then, the extremes of mood - melancholy (depression) and mania - were clearly identified as the cause of fluctuating illnesses. It was Aretaeus of Cappadocia, a famous Greek physician, who first suggested that these extreme moods were part of the same disease, but it was only much later that this view gained momentum. In Paris in the 18th century, there were significant changes in the way people with mental illness were cared for. As treatment became more compassionate, so did the importance of observation...
History of Bipolar Disorder
The documented history of bipolar disorder dates back to ancient Greece over 2,000 years ago. Even then, the extremes of mood - melancholy (depression) and mania - were clearly identified as the cause of fluctuating illnesses.
It was Aretaeus of Cappadocia, a famous Greek physician, who first suggested that these extreme moods were part of the same disease, but it was only much later that this view gained momentum.
In Paris in the 18th century, there were significant changes in the way people with mental illness were cared for. With more compassionate treatment, the importance of monitoring and documenting illnesses has also been emphasized and the connection between mania and depression has been revived. This only happened because of detailed clinical records, which made some important ones possible
Reconnections are made.
In the 1850s, French psychiatrist Jean-Pierre Falret referred to bipolar disorder as “Folie Circulaire” – emphasizing the circular nature of bipolar disorder with changes from mania to depression. “Foil” in French refers to mania, madness, insanity or insanity, the literal translation being “circular madness.”
Around the same time, Jules Baillarger, a French neurologist, described these extreme mood swings as merely different phases of the same illness, “follié a double forme,” translated as “dual-form madness.”
The German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin first used the term manic-depressive illness in 1899 to describe these phases. Only much later, in 1953, another German, Karl Kleist, separated unipolar depression, in which there are no periods of mania or hypomania, and the
Term bipolar disorder was born.
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