Bipolar disorder is typically a severe disorder of the moods. Manic episodes and depressive episodes come and go, sometimes very rapidly, sometimes over the course of months. Recently, young children who are as young as six years old have now been diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder. It is definitely a discussion which causes controversy, but...
Bipolar disorder is otherwise known as manic depressive illness. This is a psychiatric condition that is widespread in the US. With all the stressors of life, the number of sufferers from this condition increases dramatically. Bipolar disorder is a psychiatric illness in which one faces unpredictable mood swings. These mood swings range from depressive...
When a dark mood takes hold and threatens to ruin everything in its path, take steps and learn how to beat depression fast. Chemical warfare: An imbalance in brain chemicals is one factor that causes of depression. There are many things that you can do to bring the levels of neurochemicals back into line,...
The collection of related illnesses known as manic depressive disorder (or manic depression or bipolar disorder) is characterized predominantly by swings between highly elevated moods (known as mania) and severely depressed moods. But because the permutations of the disorder can vary (rapid cycling between those extremes versus slower cycling, for example), it’s often difficult...
For much of the last century, the psychiatric profession considered bipolar children to be non-existent. That is, they believed that bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, occurred only in adults, even though some early researchers had evidence suggesting that a few adults had symptoms that had indeed manifested before they were ten. But...