“I have moments of euphoria where I feel very, very, very happy, I find myself magnificent, invincible too… and I spend a lot of money;
It's like life has no limits for me!
And then I have depressive phases where I am very sad, I cry a lot, I have a loss of interest in all the things I love and I also have a lot of suicidal thoughts”.
Diagnosed with bipolar, Kentin Payett, a 27-year-old Marseillais, has been living “in several phases” for years.
This mental disorder forces people who suffer from it to continually “juggle” between two main aspects of their moods.
"Want to live and die at the same time"
“Currently, I am in the mixed phase, that is to say that I am simultaneously in euphoria and in depression.
It means I'm as happy as I want to die.
It's very complicated to manage, ”explains the young man.
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However, Kentin plays on transparency: “I manage to have friends, a social environment;
it's an invisible disease, an invisible handicap but for me, being bipolar is not a shame.
Even though I had a hard time coming to terms with the diagnosis, bringing it up on TikTok means I can talk about it easily in real life as well.”
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