During my assistantship, I liked the observation made by a doctor friend of mine: "I am most afraid of having a manic attack (one of the attack types seen in bipolar disorder). Because all your secrets are revealed and you have no individual privacy.”
In the patient who has a manic attack, obvious differences may emerge between the pre-disease and the acute phase of the disease: a very well-behaved person may become quite angry and aggressive. . While he was frugal before, he may spend a lot of money during his illness. You may see someone who was decent and gentlemanly in the past swearing, making sexual jokes and inappropriate gestures.
You may listen to dramatic stories. The story given by a female client of mine who learned that her husband had been cheating on her for the last 3 months was as follows: "While her husband was a very calm, loyal and home-loving person, he had changed in a strange way. He was having casual relationships with prostitutes, buying expensive gifts, using cigarettes and alcohol even though he never used them, acting recklessly and talking constantly. "He would even come and tell his wife about all the actions he had committed outside of marriage." The woman was crying and telling the story of a typical manic attack.
My doctor friend's diagnosis was correct. When you had a manic attack, all your unconsciously repressed impulses (and the individual private realities that accompany the impulses that you were afraid to confront) were revealed.
It is a fact that one of the most difficult activities to achieve is confronting oneself.
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