Bipolar disorder, life in swing for 120 thousand Italians - Medicine. First an inexplicable sadness, tiredness and apathy.
Then an apparent well-being, euphoria, courage and unscrupulousness. But it is possible to go down, as long as you follow the right therapies, which are too often prescribed very late due to missed and incorrect diagnoses. Bipolar disorder is often confused with depression and the correct diagnosis can arrive ten years late. The Italian Society of Psychiatry (Sip) launches an appeal to doctors and specialists so that they "do not fall into the trap of hasty and wrong diagnoses"