This is how I interpret it.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
I am a professional patient not a doctor.
A Disease can often be cured, but is in certain cases terminal.
On the other hand a Condition is chronic, often progressive.
It is not curable, but can be kept under control or the progression slowed. Sometimes it goes into remission, to perhaps reappear.
Loss of life generally occurs by complications, or as an effect, of the underlying cause (the Condition).
And suicide.
For lupus it is the second highest life taker, and this I am guessing, for bipolar the highest.
So as far as I understand both Lupus and Bipolar are Conditions.
Lupus is Autoimmune.
Bipolar disorder is a neurotransmitter imbalance in the brain.
I have both.
Three cheers!
I am special.
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