Bipolar Disorder

Currently, there is no laboratory or medical test that would give a straightforward conclusion that a person is suffering from bipolar disorder. This makes it difficult to determine if the symptoms (associated with bipolar disorder) that are present to him or her are indeed signs of this mental illness. Meanwhile, it is very important to detect whether or not this person really has bipolar disorder to provide the right treatment.

Furthermore, the symptoms that could be clear indications of bipolar disorder can be related to other identifiable physical or psychological illness. This makes it more difficult to give treatment since the focus is to give relief to the existing physical pain; rather than identifying if the patient is suffering from any psychological problem. And to complicate these things even further, a person who shows physical signs of bipolar disorder goes to medical doctors rather than a psychiatrist. Read the rest of this entry »

Ever noticed sudden and extreme mood swings in your child? Does he often show high levels of excitement and activity only to be unusually irritable and irrationally angry or enraged the next minute? Are your child’s tantrums exceptionally long and easily provoked?

If you answer yes to all three questions, your child may have a condition known as a bipolar disorder or manic-depression. It is a brain disorder that causes frequent and extreme behavior changes in a person. Until, recently children have not been known to acquire or develop bipolar disorders but several doctors agree that children diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD may actually be experiencing the early symptoms of a full-blown bipolar disorder. Read the rest of this entry »

All parents love to watch their healthy and active kids play along. We also love to take up all their tantrums and at times when we start thinking that the tantrums are getting too many, we believe that the child is becoming disobedient or trying to gain attention. Sometimes we ignore the child’s tantrums perceiving them to be spoilt brats and undisciplined.

Well, the fact is that we must watch our child’s activities and mood swings well enough as you might not even realize that your little one is suffering with some mental disorder. One such common mental disorder among children is Attention Deficit Disorder.

Another common disorder among kids is the Bipolar Disorder. Also known as Manic Depression, in such a condition the child undergoes random fluctuations in the mood owing to depression & mania. Read the rest of this entry »

Bipolar Disorder is more commonly known as Manic Depression, a serious mental illness which can be treated. The likely symptoms can be radical changes in behaviour, energy, mood or recurring depressive episodes, thought patterns and mania. For children, the symptoms can occur whilst they are an infant or as a young child, and sometimes it does not come out till a person reaches adolescence when there will be a rapid change, or even until someone becomes an adult. Diagnosis in young children and treatment is available, although many studies have been carried out on this illness, professionals believe that there is still much to learn about Bipolar Disorder – what actually causes it as there are many theories – and there has been no medicine that can be said to be effective enough to cure it.

We can only count on various medications, treatments and therapies for patients. Read the rest of this entry »

Scientists all over the world have categorized bipolar disorder into two classes; Mania and depression. This is the reason why the disorder is also referred to as a manic depression. Bipolar disorder is a disease of the brain and so is treated by a psychologist. People suffering from bipolar disorder are not in control of their emotions and experience extreme mood swings. This makes them very unpredictable and dealing with a person with bipolar disorder is very difficult.

A patient of bipolar disorder will be absolutely normal one minute and the next an eerie change will come over them. They may go into depression and go into a cocoon and stay there for a long time without interacting normally with people who try to communicate with them. Sometimes these patients will get so depressed that they will even contemplate suicide, many of them have been successful too. So care must be taken in dealing with a patient of bipolar disorder. Read the rest of this entry »