bipolar disorder

Bipolar disorder, or manic depression, is a psychiatric disorder characterized by severe mood swings between periods of mania with exaggerated euphoria, irritability, or both, and episodes of depression. Over 10 million Americans, including Terri Cheney and Carrie Fisher, suffer from bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder is primarily managed through medication.

Since bipolar disorder can have many different symptoms associated with it, it is difficult to diagnose, and there is a controversy surrounding the diagnosis of bipolar children. There is no known cause for this chemical disorder, although research is pointing towards a genetic mutation.

There are many internet resources for bipolar patients and their families.

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• Things Are Gonna Change

  
  Sunny Crittenden, Textibitionist Extraordinaire — Authority: 121
  Ooooooh my god I’m all over the place right now. See, Blake and I have these marathon conversations about life and creativity and expression that are both brain numbing and inspiring at the same time. I love when we talk like this, but unfortunately it’s almost always late at night and by the time we’re done, ...
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• Bipolar Disorder Info and Worksheets

  
  Therapy Worksheets — Authority: 108
  From measurecme.org, a page of Bipolar Info and Worksheets for clinicians and clients (aka "physicians" and "patients"), including several diagnostic scales. Among the pdfs: Stages of Adjustment to Bipolar Disorder How to Tell Friends & Family Members Helping a Loved One
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• Featuring a Beautiful Tomboy, Survivor Painter Edition and the Bipolar Ladies Club

  
  From Smiler, with Love. — Authority: 121
  There might be a word to define that state you get to that is beyond fatigue and utter exhaustion, but I’m at point right now where I don’t even have the energy to do that 30 second search on merriam-webster.com to find out what other synonyms might possibly exist (something my inner nerd normally thrives on). ...
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• Abilify

  
  AdPharm Blog — Authority: 141
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• Coping With The White Russians

  
  ...salted lithium. — Authority: 106
  White Russian: old fashioned glass, add ice, 2oz vodka, 1oz Kahlua, finish with chilled 1% milk… glass size and ice optional, adjust alcohol to taste.Vodka is best stored in the freezer. Colder the better.Healthy alternative to pop: fill a glass to within an inch of the brim with club soda, then add your favourite ...
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• Best of Our Blogs: November 6, 2009

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 607
  I’m attending the 25th Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy today, and I’ll write more about the inspirational work this organization has been doing for 25 years shortly (not just in Georgia, but throughout the entire country). The people who are attending this symposium — as well as the ...
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• Understanding Bipolar Disorder

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 465
  Bipolar disorder, once known as manic depression, is an illness where the sufferer alternatively experiences both extreme joy and terrible desolation. Medication and therapy are generally used to stabilize the condition.Sufferers are often detached, introverted, and emotionally sensitive even though during the manic ...
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• Bipolar Disorder Codes Demystified – List Of 18 Codes

  
  Wael Isa — Authority: 141
  You might have noticed that your physician keeps making notes when you go for consultation. While these notes are anyways not easily understood by the patient and the guardians, when it comes to the mental ailments, the codes are rather confusing. The psychiatrists usually scribble some pre-defined codes in their ...
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• Antidepressant Trials not Accurately Reported

  
  Kellevision — Authority: 417
  The field of psychiatry claims to be scientific and evidence-based when it diagnosis and prescribes medications for mental "disorders".  They often cite research to back up their claims that disorders are "biochemical imbalances" or disturbances in the brain which require chemical intervention.  However, if the ...
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• Mental Illness Doesn’t Predict Violent Behavior

  
  More Than Coping — Authority: 429
  There is a false belief among many in society that a person with a mental illness is more likely to be violent.  Think of the television shows and movies where the homicidal maniac is depicted as some sort of nut case and the potential to feed into a false belief is fed. This false idea is just a piece in ...
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• Permission to gripe...

  
  Destined to be the "crazy cat woman" — Authority: 119
  ...or be rude depending upon how you see things. Hows your irritability? Hows your anger? These are typically the first two questions my psychiatrist asks me when I sit down in the chair.* My answer is usually something along the line of I am nice to people outside of the house but a raging bitch at home. At ...
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• Study: Researchers Shoot Down Pre-Adolescent Mania

  
  Furious Seasons — Authority: 539
  A study out in this months British Journal of Psychiatry examined the course of bipolar disorder for as long as 15 years in the offspring of bipolar parents and found no evidence of pre-adolescent mania: "We studied the course of major mood disorders in the offspring of parents with well-characterised bipolar ...
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• Common Myths About Bipolar Disorder

  
  Brain Power for Bipolar People — Authority: 106
  Bipolar disorder can be considered a corruption of mood swings more than anything else, with periods of euphoric bliss interspersed and dovetailing with periods of wrenchingly desperate depression. This is summary content only, visit our website to get free reports, fun articles, fabulous photos and videos, and ...
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• Cavs’ West To Face Additional Charges

  
  Slam Dunk Central — Authority: 509
  It seems these days that Cleveland Cavaliers guard Delonte West – as troubled as he is – cannot catch a break. It is common knowledge that he suffers from a biploar disorder, which has played at least a small part in the current troubles he is involved in. If recent events indicate anything, according to Brian ...
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• Underwriting Flexibility Gobbled Up By Recession!

  
  Ed Hinerman On Life Insurance — Authority: 126
  Once upon a time life insurance underwriting wasn’t as cut and dried, and frankly brutal, as it is today. There was room for flexibility and negotiation and even compassion when working with underwriters. That was way back then….about 4 years ago. Competition thrived in those days and one company would literally ...
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• It’s come to this. Again.

  
  fullmetalgerbil — Authority: 115
  So, last year Dee and I were living in Erie and we needed help with money to move out here and be with the kids. I started a donations page on digitalcharity.com and posted the link (the original post can be found here ). Well, as anybody who’s read this blog over the past few months will know I’ve found myself ...
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• Link Farm, Mostly Related to Bipolar Disorder

  
  Alexandria — Authority: 443
  X-Ray Tech Schools has an article about 10 common myths about bipolar disorder . These include ones that are more likely to be held by the general public (e.g. mania is always happy) and ones that are more likely to be held by people with the illness (it’s OK to stop taking my meds if I’m feeling good). Julie ...
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• Bipolar Disorder Increases 4,000 Percent In Children And Adolescents

  
  BASIL & SPICE--Mind And Body! — Authority: 125
  By Lynette Fleming What do you think would happen if childhood leukemia increased by more than 4,000 percent in children and adolescents over an eight-year period?  I imagine medical experts everywhere would be scrambling to find out why.  Yet diagnoses of bipolar disorder did just that in a recent eight-year ...
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• What’s It Like to Be Married to Someone with Bipolar Disorder?

  
  Bipolar Beat — Authority: 411
  When we were in Slovenia a couple weeks ago, Cecie and I did an interview for a televised report on bipolar disorder. The interviewer asked me what it was like to be married to someone with bipolar disorder. I stammered and stuttered, not really sure how to answer and then offered up some feeble response about how ...
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