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Answer the question.
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I only knew him as Steve,
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and he mostly managed his condition himself.
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Stephen had a particularly severe bipolar disorder,
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which he hid from everyone.
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But when a low became impossibly low, he shut himself in a hotel,
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and stayed there,
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until he could bear to go on pretending he was fine.
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That doesn't answer the question.
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He phoned me because I was the only person
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he could safely be himself with.
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- You're not a doctor. - No.