{"id":73,"date":"2012-04-28T16:39:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T23:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2007\/11\/03\/bipolar-is-the-same-all-over-the-world\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:59:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:59:15","slug":"bipolar-is-the-same-all-over-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-is-the-same-all-over-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Bipolar is the same all over the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/earth.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5404\" style=\"margin: 25px;\" title=\"earth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/earth-300x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/earth-300x300.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/earth-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/earth-768x768.gif 768w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/earth-1024x1024.gif 1024w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/earth-400x400.gif 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bipolar is the same all over the world\u2026.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Depression rates change from country to country.\u00a0 Bipolar disorder is not so choosy.\u00a0 Statistically, bipolar disorder is an equal opportunity employer.\u00a0 In other words, a person with bipolar disorder in South America is exactly the same as a person with bipolar disorder in North America.\u00a0 Despite this, the way the illness are diagnosed and discussed differs widely from country depending on stigma, mental health awareness and accessible health care. So many people think that bipolar disorder is different depending on what country you live in. It\u2019s not. It\u2019s the same whether you\u2019re from Thailand or Australia, Qatar or Canada. I use those countries specifically because I know people who live there\u00a0use the Health Cards System to find stability.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s estimated that 4-6% of the people in the US have bipolar. I think it&#8217;s higher.\u00a0 Julie<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/earth.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5404\" style=\"margin: 25px;\" title=\"earth\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/earth-300x300.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/earth-300x300.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/earth-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/earth-768x768.gif 768w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/earth-1024x1024.gif 1024w, https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/earth-400x400.gif 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bipolar is the same all over the world\u2026. <\/p>\n<p>Depression rates change from country to country. Bipolar disorder is not so choosy. Statistically, bipolar disorder is an equal opportunity employer. In other words, a person with bipolar disorder in South America is exactly the same as a person with bipolar disorder in North America. Despite this, the way the illness are diagnosed and discussed differs widely from country depending on stigma, mental health awareness and accessible health care. So many people think that bipolar disorder is different depending on what country you live in. It\u2019s not. It\u2019s the same whether you\u2019re from Thailand or Australia, Qatar or Canada. I use those countries specifically because I know people who live there use the Health Cards System to find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/bipolar-is-the-same-all-over-the-world\/\">[ Read More ]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11555,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/11555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}