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that puts them at risk for sexually transmitted diseases.
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They can get involved in drug activity. They can get themselves arrested.
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They can certainly send themselves and their family into bankruptcy.
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And these kinds of negative consequences of the mania often are
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what motivates the person to get help
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because the mania itself can be rather pleasurable to have.
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Also, what motivates them to get help is the plunge into depression,
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the knowledge that they will, at some point,
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come out of the mania and go into a debilitating depression.
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Bipolar disorder is much less common than depression.
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I said that about 22% of women and about
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13% of men will have an episode of serious depression