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This video by TV360 offers you expert advice on the way people with bipolar disorder can lead normal and healthy lives.

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Leading a Normal Life with Bipolar Disorder People with bipolar disorder can absolutely lead normal lives. That question really points to the fact that there’s an often misconception that people with bipolar disorder are sentenced to a life in the hospital or a life in disability and this is far from the case. In fact people with bipolar disorder include people that are professional athletes, doctors, lawyers, business men, salesmen, all this people can be very successful. The most important thing for that to happen is that they stay on some type of treatment. It's a very treatable illness and in fact most patients when they’re on their medications have what we call a normal mood. If they don’t have the mood swings of depressions, most people think of bipolar disorders always being at the extremes but when people are on medication in fact, they would be hard to pick out in a crowd.