According to the ‘National Institute of Mental Health’, bipolar disorder is a mental disorder which can be chronic or episodic. It can cause unusual, often extreme and fluctuating changes in mood, energy and activity level, and concentration. To the bipolar disorder It can also be called manic depressive disorder or manic depression.
This is the disorder suffered by Javier Martín, popular for being one of the presenters of ‘Caiga Quien Caiga’. A few years after becoming famous, Martín was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a condition that made him being admitted several times to a psychiatric hospitalbelieving that he talked to animals or suffering from serious depression in which he was on the verge of jumping from the fifth floor to stop suffering. Luckily, by his own account, he didn’t.
He has told all this and more in the podcast ‘I had doubts’ by Yudith Tiral, in which he opens up about everything related to the disorder he is experiencing. At present he indicates that he has barely suffered symptoms of bipolarity and that he takes medication every day for this, being able to live a normal life.
To learn a little more about his story and this mental disorder, Yudith asks him several questions such as what was the way it all started, what is it like? a manic episode or what it is like for the people around you to live with someone with bipolarity.
Although he explains that many times it is not possible to know what the trigger is, he experienced it as if his head “exploded” at the age of 39, when he experienced his first episode of bipolarity. “I was convinced that I had died,” “I felt like I was in another parallel reality”he describes, saying that the episode lasted weeks, something that led him to the psychiatric hospital.
“I was convinced I had died”
Javier Martin
Diagnosed with bipolar disorder
Javier says that as a child he had no indication that he suffered from this condition and that there was no history of it in his family either. When the first signs began, even without knowing what it was, it indicated that many treated him as crazy, exaggerated, taking drugs, etc. «It is true that I have been a very partying kid, youth, you know, the night… When I went out a lot I took my pills, my joints, a lot of alcohol, and that It is something that can affect the mind in a very powerful way.and it can create mental disorders, as well as stress.
How did you experience a manic episode?
“You feel it very real,” he acknowledges, explaining that in his episode he felt like he could talk to animals or plants and that he was in a different reality than the one he had experienced until recently. This type of hallucinations They also made his family or friends suffer since they were afraid that he would harm himself.
During a manic episode, Javier details that each person can have one thing, “but in my case and in many cases, for example, it is very connected to spirituality. Suddenly you feel that you have wonderful, fantastic energy, and suddenly you stop sleeping, maybe you sleep for an hour or two and wake up super awake. You have a connection with the universe, with humanity, you want to help everyone, make sure everyone is well, you feel like you’re a messiah and you can save the world somehow and convey that message to humanity […] You feel a very beautiful energy when you are in mania, in general,” he warns.
Javier also talks about the states of ‘euthymia’the phases of normality between episodes of mania or depression and says that in them he implements things that he has learned from going through bipolarity and depression, for example the way in which words affect him «Every day I send light and love to myself all the cells and atoms of my body, and it gives me chills. Thus, he explains that speaking badly to oneself also affects, having a negative influence on the mind.
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