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March 30 is World Bipolar Day. I’ve written about this before. This year, I started wondering, has World Bipolar Day had any real-world impact? There are many stated goals for World Bipolar Day, but have we made any headway towards those goals, and has any of that headway come from World Bipolar Day itself? Do awareness days do anything for anyone?
Goals of World Bipolar Day
World Bipolar Day started on March 30, 2014. March 30th was picked as it was Vincent Van Gogh’s birthday, and people have posthumously diagnosed him with bipolar disorder.
(Of course, people have also posthumously diagnosed him with schizophrenia. It’s impossible to accurately diagnose someone who lived in the 19th century using…