Producer and director Vidhu Vinod Chopra recently spoke about his daughter Isha’s bipolar disorder and said that he was shocked when he first found out about her condition, but with the help of a family doctor, he realised that his job was to relieve her stress.

Speaking to Times of India, Chopra said, “When I first heard that she was unwell, I was shocked. Our family doctor was the first person I called. I am very grateful to him. He has played a vital role in my daughter’s upbringing. He diagnosed her with bipolar disorder and that’s when I first came to know about bipolar disorder. Thanks to his guidance, I understood that it is just like any other condition and we need to fight it together as a family.”

He said, “My job was to relieve his stress. This is the first thing a caregiver or family should do. The family has to remove the poison from the mind of the suffering family member, he has to suffer and endure it.”

Isha has written a memoir about her struggles, titled ‘Finding Order in Chaos’.

What is bipolar disorder?

Mood disorders, also called affective disorders, represent an important category of mental conditions that includes depressive disorders, bipolar disorder, and others. Bipolar disorder, in particular, is characterized by the occurrence of manic and depressive episodes.

On the work front, Vidhu Vinod Chopra last directed the critical and commercial success film ’12th Fail’ starring Vikrant Massey in the lead role.