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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• More recovery from what docs would say is permanent

  
  Beyond Meds — Authority: 433
  Some of you may be familiar with Jim S, a frequent commenter on this blog in the past. He has an awesome story of recovery and has generously shared it with us here. Check out his extensive website for more details about his recovery and life.This is a what is becoming a continuing series of [...]
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• Manic Depression Disorder Symptoms Can Be Controlled

  
  Bipolar Disorder - Knowing and Understanding — Authority: 92
  Manic depression disorder symptoms can vary in patients, a lot can depend on the age level. When you are talking about manic depression symptoms in children and adolescents, they can be different in the way they appear as in adults, who are better able to keep them modified or hidden, in some cases. Manic depression ...
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• Pharmacy Input Improves Medication Compliance

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 553
  As healthcare is placed under the microscopic to flesh out health reform, one issue that surfaces involves the poor outcomes that accompany patient non-compliance in taking medications. One solution is for health systems to consider pharmacy-based interventions to aid mental health patients. A new study in the ...
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• OK back in my happy place

  
  Gossip Candy — Authority: 459
  New Adam interview! So adorable, plus the origin of the “Crazy” duet and the song he would write for HP: “Why Am I the Nicest Guy in the World” SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE http://www.americanidol.com/videos/season_8/special_guests/adam_lambert_life_after_idol HAPPY GIFS. YOU READY?
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• Bipolar and Me by Grace

  
  Mind Your Mind — Authority: 119
  Each of us has our own story. One so unique, so detailed, and so special, we get to call it our own. Our stories are all different, each like a snowflake. Each chapter of our lives is written in as we live it. Each page, each word and sentence has its own meaning and truth. [...]
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• Guest Post: Puppies and Pills Part 1

  
  FWD/Forward — Authority: 666
  About thetroubleis: Thetroubleis is a 19 year old with bipolar disorder, social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder and dyspraxia. She’s a WOC who is also a transracial adoptee and pansexual/queer, depending on how she’s feeling that day. She enjoys knitting, video games and is a music geek. How I ...
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• Doctors and EAPs…

  
  Into the system... — Authority: 107
  I saw Dr N on Thursday. It was good to have him back. I wasn’t really with it at the appointment. I couldn’t focus and didn’t know what to say. I have felt pretty numb over the past few weeks and I couldn’t convey how I felt. At one point he just said “Are you okay? Have you been sleeping? You seem like ...
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• Fred Abbe on bipolar mood swings and mercury

  
  Brain Power for Bipolar People — Authority: 113
  This from Fred Abbe, formerly afflicted with severe bipolar disorder symptoms: "To ignore mercury removal using the proper protocols, as a primary necessity for sufferors of bi polar, is an... This is summary content only, visit our website to get free reports, fun articles, fabulous photos and videos, and published ...
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• Are Many Conditions Possible All At Once?

  
  Ask the Therapist — Authority: 134
  Hello, I am a 49 year old woman who experienced physical, mental, emotional and sexual abuse while growing up in poverty - often going hungry with 11 children in our family. When I was 17 my father committed suicide with a rifle. All my siblings experienced the same conditions as I and all have mental illnesses: ...
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• Why I Love My Pharmacy Even More

  
  Patient Anonymous: Just Another Head Case — Authority: 122
  I am so lucky.  I seriously am.  I really think they have gone above and beyond “Customer Service,” this time. Because I am still not working, I am on a stoopid guvmunt plan where I need to pay out of pocket for my meds.  As you can imagine, this is rather painful when you are on a limited income.  Especially ...
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• Impact of substance use on the physical health of patients with bipolar disorder

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 144
  Impact of substance use on the physical health of patients with bipolar disorder, A cta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 2009 M. P. Garcia-Portilla Abstract: Objective: To describe the impact of tobacco, alcohol and cannabis on metabolic profile and cardiovascular risk in bipolar patients. ...
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• Am I Bipolar?

  
  Ask the Therapist — Authority: 134
  I feel like I’m bipolar.. am I??? My dad is bipolar, and has been my whole life, He has gotten worse because of his heart attack in June. When he’s manic, I love it! He does funny, and risky stuff, and I take part. My younger brother (15) doesn’t like it as much as I do and I don’t know why. I feel like I also ...
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• My (Very Early Morning) EEG

  
  Patient Anonymous: Just Another Head Case — Authority: 122
  Ugh.  I’m still waiting for the Tea Faeries to alight upon my shoulders, with blessings of sweet caffeine relief, but to no avail…  Yes, I was up very early this morning (after staying up a little late?) for another EEG! Let’s just say the whole thing started off with a bang.  Literally.  The hospital’s ...
  5 days ago

• The "Problem Child", Scapegoating and the Family System

  
  Kellevision — Authority: 125
  Another family brings by the "problem child" and drops them off for me to fix.  She* is the oldest child of five and has been exposed to severe domestic violence , physical abuse and substance abuse .  And she is responding to it as any teenager would - by acting it out.  The familys first attempt to treat the ...
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• Becoming Someone New…..

  
  Homeless Tales — Authority: 415
  I’m becoming someone new due to a medication change. It hits me between the eyes now and then that I am changing…and thankfully changing for the better.I suffer from a very serious case of Bipolar Disorder. I think there is a sprinkle of Schizophrenia in there but my former doctor did not feel that my [...]
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• It’s All About Quantity

  
  From Smiler, with Love. — Authority: 126
  5,553 words. That’s the exact amount of words I need to write today if I want to stay on track with my NaNoWriMo daily average. I just like to stay ahead of the game. Not that I’m competitive or anything...But then, today doesn’t lend itself to long bouts of writing what with a couple of outings on the agenda ...
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• madness

  
  kickin tina — Authority: 128
  Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. - VOLTAIRE (1694-1778) its so challenging to be in the throes of a chemical imbalance and feel in balance. no matter what is happening on the outside, what goes on inside can easily be equated with hell. there is no ...
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• Bipolar Disorder Reports Skewed?

  
  Bipolar Beat — Authority: 411
  Bipolar disorder gets a lot of bad press, even among those of us who have struggled with it in our lives. I have noticed this particularly online, from exasperated family members and exhausted individuals with bipolar who haven’t yet found effective treatment. I wonder whether it’s just the nature of the beast. ...
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• Psychosocial interventions to prevent relapse: a case study.

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 144
  Psychosocial interventions to prevent relapse: a case study, Mental Health Practice, 2009 Sep; 13(1): 28-33 Katherine Lloyd is an early intervention practitioner at the Liverpool South Early Intervention Team     Abstract: Katherine Lloyd used ...
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• Home Again Home Again Jiggity Jig Part Two

  
  ...salted lithium. — Authority: 112
  My girlfriend is home. After four weeks of living on the high-risk pregnancy ward of the Ottawa General Hospital, including six days in quarantine with H1N1, she’s back downstairs in her apartment.We came home Tuesday night. On Monday we were told she’d have to stay in quarantine until Thursday, then on Tuesday a ...
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