Article by Anuradha Thakur

Depression is a mental illness that affect your body as a whole. This illness involves the body, mood, and thoughts. Depression is also known as biological depression, clinical depression and major depression. But the meaning for all is same that is feeling sad and depressed for weeks or months on end (not just a passing blue mood), accompanied by feelings of hopelessness, lack of energy, and taking little or no pleasure in things that gave you joy in the past.

Depression is characterized by a number of common symptoms. These include a persistent sad, anxious, or “empty” mood, and feelings of hopelessness or pessimism. A person who is depressed also often has feelings of guilt, worthlessness, and helplessness. They no longer take interest or pleasure in hobbies and activities that were once enjoyed; this may include things like going out with friends or even sex.

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Article by Core Fitness

The basics of an often misunderstood and frequently feared condition.

While bipolar disorder is often laughed about, it is no joking matter. It is also nothing to be feared. Rather, it is a condition that – if ignored, misdiagnosed, or mistreated – can have a tremendous impact on an individual’s quality of life. Before you shy away from discussing the disorder or make a wisecrack, read on to find out the truth concerning this difficult to understand condition.

What is bipolar disorder?

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Article by Anuradha Thakur

Bipolar disorder is a brain disorder which is also known as manic-depressive illness. It 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 different from the normal ups and downs that everyone experience through from time to time. Bipolar disorder symptoms can result in damage relationships, poor school performance, lost of good jobs and it can even cause suicide. But fortunately bipolar disorder can be treated and people with this illness can lead full and productive lives.

Bipolar disorder often develops in a person’s late teens or early adult years. At least half of all cases start before age 25.1 Some people have their first symptoms during childhood, while others may develop symptoms late in life. Bipolar disorder is not easy to spot when it starts. The symptoms may seem like separate problems, not recognized as parts of a larger problem. Some people suffer for years before they are properly diagnosed and treated. Like diabetes or heart disease, bipolar disorder is a long-term illness that must be carefully managed throughout a person’s life.

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Article by Sonia Manning

Those who fear sweet little cuddly Pit Bulls or furry Wolf Hybrids have clearly never dealt with aggressive cat behavior. Cats can be downright violent! How can a beautiful, purring, loveable cat turn into something that clearly inspired Pet Cemetery in the blink of an eye? Some people say that all cats are bipolar, others simply say they know that they are the superior breed to their humans and have minds of their own.

If you are dealing with aggression, you cannot address it or look for ways to fix it without trying to understand what’s causing it. Cats may be moody but they typically have a reason why they act the way that they do.

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Article by Arun Pal

If you meet someone whose mood changes without any particular reason, you might find it a bit strange. Sometimes the change can be very dramatic that you might somehow feel scared of that person. You might even feel that the person is mentally ill because of his strange behavior. What you don’t know is that this behavior can be one of the many bipolar disorder symptoms. Bipolar disorder is a kind of mental disorder which causes one person to have mood swings without him even realizing it. One minute he is very happy and the next he’s either depressed or angry. Bipolar symptoms can be very both confusing and disturbing which might cause people with this disorder to be alienated by their peers. This social alienation will only cause more hurt to the sufferers, because what they actually need is someone who can help them. This article will tell you about the different phases of bipolar symptoms so that if you suspect that you family member or you friend suffer from bipolar disorder, you can help them fight the condition.

As mentioned previously, bipolar disorder symptoms cause one person to have drastic mood swings. The mood shifts can happen abruptly or gradually. The severity of the mood swing varies among sufferers; it varies from mild to severe. There are two phases of mood change commonly experienced by people with this condition, the manic phase and the depressive phase.

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Article by Alex Warren

What is Bipolar Disorder? Every one of us can experience the ‘ups and downs’ of everyday life, but for people suffering with bipolar affective disorder these ups and downs are more extreme and prolonged, affecting not only their mood, but their thoughts, behavior and ability to function in life. Thus making them different from others. For us it is just a bad day or experience but for the sufferer it could be a lesion or incident to be remembered. It is a neurological disorder characterized by extreme mood swings. After a brief research it has been concluded that there is no such factor that causes this disorder. Genetic factors, brain chemistry and life incidents contribute in the onset of this disorder. There are almost one in hundred people get affected by this disorder. It mainly starts as a depression in adolescent but it can appear at any age group regardless of gender. It is important to treat this disorder as early as possible to avoid further complications.

Causes of Bipolar Disorder

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Question by Paycee: what are the causes of bipolar disorder or mental illness?
my aunt has mental illness aka bipolar disorder. i want to know what are the causes of it. thanks!!!

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Can a tramatic event, although seeming managable at the time cause depression. Or is a chemical imbalance (low sertonin) eventually lead to depression with or without external causes. Is hypomania bipolar II mixed state bipolar difficult to diagnose? Can a person with the above suffer from a “lack of insight” much more common with bipolar I than II. I am skeptical a event of 17 years ago can cause a slow but consistent slide in a quality of life issue. I am in therapy. With revealing talks with old friends my behavior did change (slowly) but consistently almost two decades ago! Is this posible?

Caring for a loved 1 who has a bipolar condition has to mean that you have to know the characteristics of the mental illness for you to correctly identify whether the particular person is already not in his or her appropriate frame of mind as of that moment and correct intervention can be done prior to anything can get out of hand.

There are in fact three primary categories where a medical practitioner would normally assess this mental illness. These three are manic manifestations, psychotic symptoms, and depressive bipolar problem characteristics. If various of these are being manifested, it might be time to go in for an interview.

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Folks typically disregard the danger of a developing mental dysfunction, just like a bipolar dysfunction. Unlike an acute or chronic disease, family members would deny that these mental sickness are real and that they can be a big issue in the lengthy run. These psychological sickness can result in life threatening harm to others as well as the patient himself.

A person with bipolar condition experiences two phases of mental instability – very first is manic, where he or she becomes inappropriately happy and hyperactive and mischievous. The second is depressive, in which a individual becomes very sad and indifferent.

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