Examples Of Bipolar In Lady Macbeth

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Lady Macbeth Diagnosis
Lady Macbeth in the story Macbeth has been suffering from variant physiological problems like Bipolar and paranoid schizophrenia. Lady Macbeth was showing signs of a physiological damages before Macbeth Became king . Lady Macbeth has suffered a lot throughout the story physiologically she shows signs of Bipolar due to her rapid change of speech with characters in the story, she also is showing paranoid schizophrenia with suicidal thoughts.
Lady Macbeth suffers from bipolar disorder due to the symptoms shown within her differentiation in speech. She could be happy and then switch over to being mad and change again to happy in a matter of a couple sentences or words. In the Story Lady Macbeth says “Thou'rt mad to say

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