Article by Kurt F. Hammond

According to the Community Wellness Business (Whom), melancholy is definitely the fourth top reason for incapability and is influencing pertaining to 121 zillion people out of worldwide. It make a difference men and women coming from all competitions, age groups, and also genders.

Depression Description

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Article by Jean Littman

Diagnosing bipolar disorder has always been tricky, particularly for doctors and therapists. If there was a laboratory test or x-ray that could give a definitive bipolar disorder diagnosis, preliminary investigations by doctors would provide a much clearer result.

This lack of quantifiable analysis is part of the reason for the difficulty in determining whether the symptoms indicate mental illness or not. Accurate diagnosis is usually only reached after careful analysis of behaviour, thought patterns and consultation with family and loved ones.

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Question by Misti Salzberg: how do you get bipolar type 1 disorder?
i have bipolar type 1 disorder and i dont really know why i got diagnosed. anyone know how you get it?

Best answer:

Answer by Dil Wah
This is because of genes. It is a hereditary disease.

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Question by Beezer: Has anyone been diagnosed Bipolar Type 1 and continued to stay on their meds through pregnancy?
And if so, have you had any problems, what is the risk to the baby? Also what medication were you on for Bipolar Type 1?

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my disability is schizoaffective bipolar type 1, my disability began on august 1st, 2004, it’s exactly 5 years plus 21 days but they still haven’t sent me the CDR or continuing disability review forms.

Why is that? how much longer will I have to wait for a review?

iv recently been diagnosed with bipolar disorder type 1 in april. i have a 15 mo old daughter and i was wondering what her chances of being bipolar are. recently shes been acting out and being violent to her 9 mo old cousin and 7 mo old sister. im not sure how much of it is normal toddler behavior of her establishing her independence and how much might be her starting to display symptoms of bipolar disorder.

if she is bipolar is there anything we can do for her at 15 mo old?

Television shows are suddenly very interested in people with Bipolar mood disorder with an emphasis on the inability of people with bipolar disorder to function in the world, as serial rapists or as crazed killers. How can people who have the disorder protect themselves from being labeled as criminally mentally ill? They need to arm themselves with Bipolar mood disorder information and share it where appropriate.

Bipolar disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a category of mood disorders that is determined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally high energy levels and one or more depressive episodes. The high energy levels are called mania unless they are not as severe. Then they are referred to as hypomania. Some people have these episodes separately and some suffer them both at the same time.

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Do you know someone who has bipolar disorder? Perhaps it is someone you know that is very close to you like a friend, relative, child, or it might even be yourself. Bipolar disorder is a very serious mental illness that affects the lives of the people who have it, as well as the lives of the people who love them.

There are three basic types of bipolar disorder. The first type is called bipolar I disorder. This particular form of the disorder causes the individual to bounce back and forth between high levels of mania and depression. The symptoms of depression can last for days, weeks, and even months at a time. With this form of bipolar disorder, there will also be periods when everything is fine.

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Lamotrigine also known as Lamictal (by GlaxoSmithKline) is an anticonvulsant and is used to treat epilepsy and bipolar disorder. Although preventing seizures  was its original purpose, the FDA approved it for treating bipolar disorder- particularly the depressive phase and rapid cycling between moods Lamictal has also shown some promise in treating people who suffer from unipolar depression, although it hasn’t been approved for this purpose. It’s especially helpful for patients who haven’t responded to other depression medication.  For epilepsy it is used to treat partial seizures, primary and secondary tonic-clonic seizures, and seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome. Lamotrigine also acts as a mood stabilizer. It is approved for the maintenance treatment of bipolar type I. Lamictal comes in strenghts of lamictal 25 mg, lamotrigine 100 mg, lamotrigine 150 mg,lamotrigine 200 mg.

It has been found that Lamotrigine Tablets being a Phenyltriazine is chemically unrelated to other anticonvulsants, has relatively few side-effects and does not require blood monitoring in monotherapy. The exact way generic lamotrigine works is unknown but it has been thought as a sodium channel blocker. Lamictal pill is thought to work by restoring the balance of certain natural substances (neurotransmitters) in the brain and inactivated by hepatic glucuronidation.

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Bipolar as a term is being used so broadly that it is beginning to lose some of its meaning. It is, I think, often used as a default diagnosisespecially in children and adolescents. We dont know whats going on so we call it bipolar if there is mood instability, meltdowns, rages, or if the symptoms respond to a medication that is used to treat bipolar category symptoms.

So, the first clinical issue is what exactly is being treated? Diagnoses tend to be reductionistic. In other words, they are used as categorical labels instead of being recognized as a somewhat limited tool for communication between clinicians. They also tend to separate patients out into us and them. I am bipolar becomes an identity rather than a description of certain behaviors/emotions that are only part of a much greater whole that we call a person. It reminds me of Alcoholics Anonymous where someone stands up and says, Hi, Im Chuck. Im an alcoholic. Now I know that this is necessary, but I always want to ask, So, what does that mean? because viewing behavior in the whole context of the persons life helps me understand who someone is much more.

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