When nationally known photographer/author Willie Middlebrook came to Shreveport in 1997 I was one of the local artists selected to work with him. Our project had us creating 20 4’x4’ photographic collages. My personal collage was about my daughter. This photo was part of it. She was 10 and yet to be diagnosed with bipolar disorder. She seemed to explode with anger on an hourly basis.
A new study appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences might explain a little as to why she seemed irritated all the time. It says that biplolar youths are more likely than others to see hostility in and fear neutral faces. Compared with those without bipolar disorder, bipolar youths gave hostility ratings to the neutral faces and reported being more fearful of those faces, the study shows.
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