NHS billions wasted as bipolar patients left ‘forgotten and failed’

‘Following my bipolar diagnosis, my team helped me remain in the job I love’

A bipolar social worker talks grappling with her diagnosis, the challenges of receiving care, and the vital role her team played

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BBC handout When her baby was three weeks old, Emma took an overdose Failing to properly diagnose and treat people with bipolar disorder is wasting billions of pounds a year in the UK, according to new data shared exclusively with the BBC. Experts say many of the estimated million people living with this condition are “ghosts in the system”, whose lives are being torn apart by poorly managed extreme suicidal lows or manic, erratic highs. Emma w…

Between 2 and 3% of the population can generate some form of bipolar disorder throughout their lives. This disease, which has a prevalence between 0.5 and 1.6% in its most severe forms, is characterized by a changing mood, as indicated by the head of the psychiatric service of the Hospital Quirónsalud Córdoba and the Medical Center Quirónsalud Jaén, José Ángel Alcalá. Bipolar disorder is a type of condition and psychological problem. It is usual…