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Bipolar Disorder

What is Bipolar Disorder

July 23, 2009 Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar disorder is a mental illness that afflicts you such that your moods could swing extremely rapidly between extreme mania and deep depression. Amongst a host of other things, it makes it difficult for you to relate with people around you, and vice versa. I mean, picture just how bad things would be if people [...]

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Triggers for Bipolar Disorder

July 21, 2009 Bipolar Disorder

When you suffer from bipolar disorder or any type of malady that is related to depression, any number of things could trigger off a spell or crises. When it is manic-depression, you might react to it either in the manic way or in the down-in-the-dumps manner. So it could be stress at work or at [...]

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Therapy and Treatment of Bipolar Disorder

July 19, 2009 Bipolar Disorder

With some therapy or treatment, it is possible to shorten or delay imminent bipolar disorder in some patients. In others, you may even prevent the extreme moods altogether. Lithium carbonate for instance, is a natural mineral salt that can help to control both the manic and the depressive episodes. And there are a few others [...]

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The Two Sides of Bipolar Disorder

July 17, 2009 Bipolar Disorder

In North America, in Europe, and all over the world, there are more people that suffer from bipolar disorder than you might care to know about. Statistics suggest that perhaps one percent of people actually experience the syndrome at some point during the course of their lives. The rest of us, I believe either learnt [...]

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The Misdiagnose of Bipolar Disorder

July 15, 2009 Bipolar Disorder

Living in denial is one of the worst things that people do, and unfortunately a lot of Americans are like that. They have had some nasty experiences yet they will not face up to it and deal with it. What eventually happens is that their emotions now boil over and becomes something else, like bipolar [...]

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The Maniac-Depressive Ilness

July 13, 2009 Bipolar Disorder

The Manic-Depressive Psychosis work done by Jules Falret was in 1875 recognized as a psychiatric disorder different from simple depression, but not quite homing in on bipolar disorder. The man even proved that the disease had genetics in the mix, but not much interest was taken in his findings. If only that had not been, [...]

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The Depressive State of Bipolar Disorder

July 11, 2009 Bipolar Disorder

Up to 8 percent of adults in the United States experience serious depression at some point during their lives, and a good portion of this figure suffer directly from bipolar disorder and related syndromes. The medical society in the country has their hand full trying to decipher one form from the other, and also treat [...]

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Symptoms of Various Mental Conditions

July 9, 2009 Bipolar Disorder

Till date, even though the condition is well known all over the world and largely studied by a lot of professionals, there appears to be need yet for more ways by which bipolar disorder can be treated. And yes, the history of the condition is such that it continues to prosper with these studies. Perhaps [...]

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Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder

July 7, 2009 Bipolar Disorder

Up to 85 percent of folks who have lived with a single bout of depression will experience it again, and when it comes back, it might not be so mild because you never treated it in the first instance. Manic-depressive illness might stem from something of that nature because you made a habit of not [...]

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Studies on Bipolar Disorder

July 5, 2009 Bipolar Disorder

Society does place a lot of responsibility on women, pushing them to emotional extremes that most men never even broach. As such when you see a woman who suffers from manic depressive illness, you would tend to be more understanding than you would to a man. However they both need your support and all the [...]

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