A Twitter user living with bipolar disorder has pointed out a major problem with stock imagery depicting the condition. 

In a tweet thread, @Chrystran posted a series of problematic stock images which claimed to illustrate bipolar disorder. 

“I made this thread *as* someone with bipolar who finds these popular depictions of bipolar frustrating, inaccurate & silly,” she wrote on Twitter. 

According to an NHS definition, bipolar disorder is a condition which “affects your moods, which can swing from one extreme to another.” People living with this condition have “periods or episodes” of depression and mania, per the definition.  Read more…

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A Twitter user living with bipolar disorder has pointed out a major problem with stock imagery depicting the condition. 

In a tweet thread, @Chrystran posted a series of problematic stock images which claimed to illustrate bipolar disorder. 

“I made this thread *as* someone with bipolar who finds these popular depictions of bipolar frustrating, inaccurate & silly,” she wrote on Twitter. 

According to an NHS definition, bipolar disorder is a condition which “affects your moods, which can swing from one extreme to another.” People living with this condition have “periods or episodes” of depression and mania, per the definition.  Read more…

More about Mental Health, Mental Illness, Bipolar Disorder, Stock Photography, and Stock Images