Archive for January, 2010

So besides telling you my life story, what’s your take on manic depressives? I don’t think you can use me as a baseline mind you. If you go into chat rooms geared towards people with mental illness or bipolar you can see that most are …

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A Beautiful Mind: getting used to each other

One is mania or elevated mood and the other is depression or lack of mood. The moods can be subtle or dramatic and vary throughout a person’s life. Bipolar disorder is also known as Manic Depression . Some syptoms of bipolar are: Mania: …

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But some older people develop another type of depression called “ bipolar ” disorder or manic depression , in which their low moods alternate with episodes of mania or exaggerated elation. Although the disorder tends to show up earlier in …

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Bipolar disorder affects both sexes in children to adults: Manic depression is not selective in who it touches. Women and men are equally affected, as are children and adolescents (although a diagnosis in children and teens is more …

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But on a serious note, I was quite desperate to feel the way I used to, because I feel along with mania , for example, came creativity and anger and passion, and with depression came loneliness, sadness and guilt. …

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Children of bipolar parents had more significant manic and depressive symptoms than the other children. Diagnosing preschoolers with bipolar disorder is controversial. However, Reuters Health reports, researchers cite previous studies …

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And while only three children of bipolar parents had mood disorders, children of parents with bipolar disorder, especially those with ADHD and oppositional defiant disorder, had significantly more severe manic and depressive symptoms …

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In 1982, after she and John Astin had separated, Patty was finally diagnosed as having bipolar disorder. She said receiving the diagnosis was a huge relief – that she never heard two better words than ” manic depressive . …

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And while we’re on depression and mania , try this on for size: Imagine two individuals with the exact same biological mania . One individual has an introverted personality, the other is an extravert. Neither is going to react the same …

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Bipolar disorder, also known as manic – depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and the ability to carry out day-to-day tasks. Symptoms of bipolar disorder are severe. …

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