The COVID‐19 pandemic is a crisis and opportunity for bipolar disorder

The ongoing COVID‐19 pandemic has to date infected more than one million people and led to tens of thousands of deaths across the globe. Thus, many governments have imposed regional or national mass shelters‐in‐place in an effort to slow its rapid spread. In this global health emergency, special attention should be paid to the potential impact of the measures taken to combat the pandemic on patients with bipolar disorders (BDs).