Bipolar Disorder

In order to live a normal life, it is important for a person to have good physical health. However, you should also consider that your mental health is also important. The brain is what controls everything you do in your daily life. It controls your speech, it controls your motor skills and it also controls your emotions. Although you are the person who decides whether you are in a bad mood or in a good mood, there are some people with mental disorder that cannot control their emotions.

This kind of disorder is called bipolar disorder or commonly called as manic-depressive illness. Many people call this manic-depressive illness because a person suffering from this kind of disorder cannot control their emotions or their mood. You will notice that a person suffering from bipolar disorder have constant mood swings. In one moment, you will see that they are happy and the next minute they will get depressed at no reason at all. Read the rest of this entry »

It may be hard to be festive and enjoy the holiday cheer when you’re struggling financially, when you’re beating yourself up for being little better off than you were last year at this time, or while wallowing in guilt over any improprieties you may have committed during your last manic jag.

Spending sprees or unemployment may have left you with little money for buying gifts for your friends and family. The thought of spending time with friends and family may fill you with anxiety.

How, then, to survive the holidays?

Here are seven holiday survival tips to help people with bipolar disorder get through the holidays: Read the rest of this entry »

“Annette?s” struggles began at age 14, when she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. It was at this time, that her mother, also suffering from this illness, committed suicide. When she needed friends the most, she was ostracized by her schoolmates once they learned of her illness. Throughout her life she had the loving support of her father and sisters. Annette’s 26 year struggle to take control of her bipolar disorder was sidelined numerous times due to repeated hospitalizations. For this reason, it took her 10 years to earn her Bachelor’s Degree. Her efforts to be independent were also impacted by her bipolar disorder, causing her to lose employment several times. Read the rest of this entry »

Everywhere she went, Alex Fontaine was the life of the party. There was never a dull moment with her around. But between periods of silliness, she experienced bouts of deep depression. As she grew older and found it difficult to settle down and hold a job, she knew something was wrong. She later learned she has bipolar disorder.

“From an early age, my behavior was pretty extreme. I was sent to a convent school to be educated by nuns, but I didn’t take kindly to the strict regime and soon became the class clown. I once changed the church hymn numbers to 666, put a dunce’s cap on the head of a statue of St Joseph and stole the altar wine,” she told Becky Shaves of the Daily Mail, Britain’s second biggest-selling daily newspaper. Read the rest of this entry »

Like any disease a person is diagnosed with, a battle ensues to try and beat it. Whether it is cancer, AIDS, asthma or something dealing in psychiatric disorders such as Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder, there is always some fight going on once there is an official diagnosis made.

Psychiatric disorder Bipolar is among one of the mental disorders that patients cannot can’t beat but have to live with and try to overcome when the major symptoms of it begin to take hold. Basically, it’s a fight to become normal or have some sort of normalcy restored into their life

Being normal with a disease such as bi-polar disorder is a hard thing to accomplish. It can hit on every aspect of the person’s life, disrupting not only their lives but others around them. That’s why it is so imperative people with the disease be aware of any changing behavior, if possible! Read the rest of this entry »