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Who am I?  Who Was I?

A straight A student, entrepreneur, fine artist, seamstress, jeweler, crafter, teacher, graphic artist, successful custom muralist, advertising sales career peaking at $100K a year age 35.  A lovely caring mother of two.

Yet, I have a disorder. Read more

From Outcast To Insider: Overcoming The Stigma of Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar Disorder and Society:

The stigma often associated with manic depression and other mental disorders is very real.  Many people with bipolar disorder or other mental illnesses are afraid to share their condition with other people for fear of ridicule or judgment.

A World Federation for Mental Health study recently revealed that more than 71% of patients with bipolar disorder felt they could not reveal their illness to others without being judged. Read more

6 Essential Facts You Should Know About Bipolar Disorder

ental health authorities estimate that more than 2 million adults have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder (also called manic-depression), a chemical imbalance in the brain causing extreme mood swings from manic highs to agonizing lows. Although a diagnosis of bipolar disorder can be frightening and confusing, it is a treatable and manageable condition.

If you or someone close to you has been diagnosed with bipolar illness, the first step in relieving fear and uncertainty is education. The more you know about the disorder, the less control it will exert over you and others who may be affected. Read more

The Ups and Downs of Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar Disorder, also called manic-depressive illness, is a serious disorder of the brain marked by cyclical mood swings, which often disrupt work, school, family, and social life. The symptoms typically begin in a person’s late teens or twenties and affect men and women equally. If left untreated, it can lead to suicide in nearly 20 percent of cases. The illness is often misunderstood and difficult to diagnose because its symptoms may not reappear for as much as a year at a time. Many times, it is initially misdiagnosed especially when hypomania (milder manic episodes) is not recognized. Since mental illnesses cannot be identified by a blood test or a brain scan, diagnosis must be made on the basis of symptoms, patterns of the illness, and family history. Read more

Bipolar Disorder - A Psychiatric Perspective

Bipolar disorder, or manic depression, is a serious mental illness that has remained a mystery for decades.  Bipolar disorder has been around probably just as long as man has; and for many years bipolar disorder patients were diagnosed as psychotic or schizophrenic.  This all changed for the better two decades ago with a diagnosis called “manic depression”; and though closer to today’s modern day understanding of the condition; psychiatric specialists at the time still did not fully understand the illness. Read more

Different Types Of Depression

Depression is not a small societal problem. It affects a rather large segment of our population. The word depression is a broad topic, and actually there are a variety of different type of the condition known as depression. These different types of depression are defined by different types of symptoms that are present.

The most commonly type of depression treated today is known as major depression. Major depression is denoted by a lack of energy by the individual, unable to get a good night’s sleep, and just a general lethargic feeling or feeling blue for extended periods of time with no breaks in the mood and no apparent cause for the feelings. Read more

Could Bipolar Disorder Be What’s Making Your Loved One Angry?

Are you involved in a close relationship with someone whose occasional outbursts of temper at times shock and surprise you?  Do you find yourself sometimes looking at your teenage son and wondering where all of this sudden rage could have come from, when you have provided him a happy home?  Is your relationship with your wife one you would describe as loving and happy, if only it wasn’t interrupted by her recurring bouts of irritability and anger over what seems to you like trivial things? Read more

Those Pesky Feelings

Once, eons ago it seems, my feelings were so extreme that they ripped through my body reducing me to a quivering mass of flesh, bones and blood, helpless to defend myself or even to care.  I didn’t understand why my reactions were so fierce for nearly a quarter of a century, but I always knew I was different from everyone else.  My classmates constantly taunted me knowing they would get some outlandish reply, tears or some sort of emotional display that would fuel their teasing and gossip even more.  I’ll never forget in the 4th grade being labeled as “weird “by one girl, because it stuck with me through high school.  I finally shed that brand sometime around the age of eighteen; two years after my first suicide attempt. By this time, I had absorbed some basic knowledge about “normal” human behavior so that I would cry only in Read more

25 Most Common Bipolar Disease Symptoms

On an ordinary day, anyone may call it a mood.  When it shifts erratically from one to another, people call it mood swings.  But what is really the clinical explanation for people experiencing episodes of extreme moods that shifts unpredictably as any weather going bad on a good day?

Bipolar Disease symptoms include feeling overly ecstatic to feeling tremendously poignant. This high and low process in one’s mood consists the exasperating Bipolar Disease symptoms. Read more

Discovering You Have Bipolar Disorder Can Be Devastating

Are you at risk of Bipolar Disorder?

Given the fact Bipolar Disorder tends to run in the family, researchers have been searching for specific genes passed down through generations that may increase anyone’s chances of showing signs of the disorder.

Generally a patient will most likely be depressed when they first seek help, it is very important to find out from the patient or the patient’s relatives or friends if a manic or hypomaniac episode has ever been present, using alert questioning. I may already be that  disparate neurocognitive abnormalities have been reported, disturbances in attention, visual memory, further more executive function are most religiously reported. Read more

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