Siapakah Hannibal Lecter ?

Dr Hannibal Lecter adalah karakter dalam seri novel oleh Thomas Harris.
Lecter diperkenalkan pada tahun 1981 film thriller baru Red Dragon sebagai psikiater forensik dan pembunuh berantai kanibalisme. Di novel dan sekuelnya, The Silence of the Lambs, fitur Lecter sebagai salah satu antagonis utama setelah dua pembunuh berantai di kedua novel.

Dalam novel ketiga, Hannibal Lecter menjadi protagonis. Perannya sebagai antihero terjadi dalam novel keempat, Hannibal Rising, yang membahas masa kecil dan perkembangannya menjadi pembunuh berantai.
Film pertama yang diadaptasi dari novel Harris adalah Manhunter (berdasarkan Red Dragon) yang menampilkan Brian Cox sebagai Lecter, dieja "Lecktor".

Pada tahun 1991, Anthony Hopkins memenangkan Academy Award untuk perannya sebagai karakter di The Silence of the Lambs. Dia akan memerankan kembali  peran di Hannibal pada tahun 2001 dan dalam adaptasi kedua Red Dragon yang dibuat pada tahun 2002 dengan judul asli.

Serial televisi NBC Hannibal debutnya pada tahun 2013, dan berfokus pada pengembangan hubungan antara Lecter dan Will Graham, seorang agen FBI yang menjadi musuh terbesar Lecter. Dalam serial ini, Lecter digambarkan oleh aktor Denmark Mads Mikkelsen, yang memenangkan Saturn Award untuk penampilannya.

Pada tahun 2003, Hannibal Lecter (seperti yang digambarkan oleh Hopkins) dipilih oleh American Film Institute sebagai penjahat  nomor  1di  film. Pada bulan Juni 2010, Entertainment Weekly menjadikan Lecter sebagai  salah satu dari 100 Karakter Terbaik  dari 20 Tahun Terakhir.

What is lithium ?

Lithium affects the flow of sodium through nerve and muscle cells in the body. Sodium affects excitation or mania.

Lithium is used to treat the manic episodes of manic depression. Manic symptoms include hyperactivity, rushed speech, poor judgment, reduced need for sleep, aggression, and anger. It also helps to prevent or lessen the intensity of manic episodes.
Lithium may also be used for other purposes not listed.

Im sure nirvana song its inspired by this drug, or maybe Kurt Cobain use this drug.

The Different Between Schizophrenia and Bipolar

Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar disorder is a fairly common mental disorder compared with the other two disorders. Bipolar disorder is also well-understood and readily treated by a combination of medications and psychotherapy. It is characterized by alternating moods of mania and depression, both of which usually last weeks or even months in most people who have the disorder. People who are manic have a high energy level and often irrational beliefs about the amount of work they can accomplish in a short amount of time. They sometimes take on a million different projects at once and finish none of them. Some people with mania talk at a faster rate and seem to the people around them to be constantly in motion.

After a manic mood, a person with bipolar disorder will often “crash” into a depressive mood, which is characterized by sadness, lethargy, and by a feeling that there’s not much point in doing anything. Problems with sleep occur during both types of mood. Bipolar disorder affects both men and women equally and can be first diagnosed throughout a person’s life.

Bipolar disorder can be challenging to treat because, while a person will take an antidepressant medication to help alleviate a depressed mood, they are less likely to remain on the medications which help reign in the manic mood. Those medications tend to make a person feel “like a zombie” or “emotionless,” which are feelings most people wouldn’t want to experience. So many people with bipolar disorder find it difficult to maintain treatment while in their manic phase. However, most people with bipolar disorder function relatively well in normal society and manage to cope with their mood swings, even if they don’t always keep on their prescribed medications.

I found from Indonesia articles

"Gangguan bipolar adalah gangguan pada kejiwaan seseorang yang yang punya dua jenis gejala. Ia merasakan keadaan manik (bahagia) dan depresi secara ekstrim, " terang Ketua Umum Perhimpunan Dokter Spesialis Kedokteran Jiwa Indonesia dokter Danardi Sosrosumihardjo, SpKJ (K).

"Kalau skizofrenia pasien akan mengalami gejala utama berupa halusinasi dan delusi," tambah dokter Danardi.
Halusinasi ini terkait dengan gangguan pada panca inderanya, misalnya ia merasa mendengar bisikan terus menerus. Jika delusi atau waham adalah keadaan dimana adanya gangguan pikiran yang tidak bisa dikoreksi. Misalnya ia merasa "saya adalah nabi", "saya adalah Yesus".

Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is less common than bipolar disorder and is usually first diagnosed in a person’s late teens or early to late 20’s. More men than women receive a diagnosis of schizophrenia, which is characterized by having both hallucinations and delusions. Hallucinations are seeing or hearing things that aren’t there. Delusions are the belief in something that isn’t true. People who have delusions will continue with their delusions even when shown evidence that contradicts the delusion. That’s because, like hallucinations, delusions are “irrational” — the opposite of logic and reason. Since reason doesn’t apply to someone who has a schizophrenic delusion, arguing with it logically gets a person nowhere.
Schizophrenia is also challenging to treat mainly because people with this disorder don’t function as well in society and have difficulty maintaining the treatment regimen. Such treatment usually involves medications and psychotherapy, but can also involve a day program for people who have more severe or treatment-resistant forms of the disorder.
Because of the nature of the symptoms of schizophrenia, people with this disorder often find it difficult to interact with others, and conduct normal life activities, such as holding down a job. Many people with schizophrenia go off of treatment (sometimes, for instance, because a hallucination may tell them to do so), and end up homeless.