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This research is mainly to study a case study of a patient with bipolar disorder during the course of illness, which is a qualitative research method. The researcher uses interviews, participant observations, family documents and reflective journals to collect materials from the patient, his family members and close friends. Based on these materials, further analyses and hypotheses are generated. Bipolar Disorder is one of the most widely known mental illnesses in the history of psychiatry. Up till now, its treatment is mainly counted on psychiatric medication, supplemented by psychotherapy such as cognitive-behavioral or emotional therapy. The biopsychosocial model has been proved so very helpful that under the treatments, patients become more stabilized. They are empowered to move onward and lead a better life. In the end, their sense of illness and self-awareness are awakened. They become more willing to take and manage their medication, more open-minded to collect therapeutic informations, and more comfortable with interpersonal interaction. Their emotions become much more in control, followed by less disputes or upheavals. When their lives become peaceful, they are more integrated into social groups, hence their self-affirmation is elevated. This research examines, first of all, causes and formation of Bipolar Disorder. Secondly it explores the course of interaction of such a patient with his family. The research identifies several factors that are crucial in the interaction: a patient’s vulnerability to mental illness, his helplessness during episodes, his family’s unfailing love, continuous trials and errors in the maintenance of a good-enough relationship. In conclusion, the research proposes that with love and compassion, the patient’s family and friends demonstrate enough supports and cares for the patient to carry on. The patient himself has to struggle with the illness. It’s torments and frustrations are hard to imagine. Thanks to his family and friends’s sincere supports, warm acceptance and everlasting compassion, each falling moments can be recollected and remembered, so that relationships can be connected and extended. This is the most powerful drive that urges the patient to carry on, enables him to have a reconciliation with his self, his family and friends, also with god. Eventually an unthinkable, benign rapport is built up.
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