Maxime testifies to his willingness to assume his bipolarity

Maxime, bipolar, testifies for Brut -

“I was walking half naked in the street.

I had ideas that went in all directions, ”remembers Maxime who was consulted because this thirty-something who was planning to marry a model he had just met had become uncontrollable.

The diagnosis then falls: it is bipolar.

After many hospitalizations, more or less tumultuous, he finally accepted his pathology.

An essential phase for "healing", according to doctors.

What is bipolarity?

Maxime explains it himself: “It is a neurologically based psychiatric mood disorder, characterized by an alternation between so-called hypercharacterized depressive phases - this can lead to suicide - and so-called manic phases.

With a return to normal between the two.

This pathology affects around 3% of the population.

To our partner Brut, Maxime explains, with his mother, why he created an association: “Bipolar and proud, and proud”.

A deliberately provocative name: “It is the act of assuming, accepting, moving forward in life.

We stop going around in circles.

We advance, finally we try, like that ... "

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