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BI POLAR DISORDER  

How many people do you know with Bi-Polar Disorder? My guess is many will answer that question as, NONE. Are you sure?

Bi-polar disorder can affect someone during the course of their lifetime, but it can be managed.

Most people hear the words Bi-Polar Disorder and the first thing that springs to mind is something they've seen on telvison or read online.

Bi-Polar Disorder is a well know mental disorder. Many people try to deal with it everyday. Bi-Polar consists of manic episodes and depressed episodes as well. Periods of high or irritable moods are called manic episodes and can often times get the person into trouble.

Being in law enforcment is stressfull enough, but having to do it while contending with the efffects of Bi-Polar makes it even worse. How I deal with it and how it makes me better at my job.

Life with a bi-polar child definitely isn't easy. It's a roller coaster ride of emotions, and it's a disorder that won't go away by itself. This firsthand information can help.

At first glance, I am a successful college senior. I am a college athlete, accepted to the graduate school of my choice, an amazing family and an abundance of friends. On the inside I am just a guy trying to fight back the disease that haunts my life.

Some guidlines parents can use to determine if their child has a bi-polar disorder.

A disorder has been occupying her brain waves, changing her life's journey.

Real world information for those considering living with someone who is bi-polar.

This is about my life living with an 11 year old boy with manic-depression.

I'd like to write a humorous and at times tender, journal/advice column about Bipolar disorder and my misadventures with it. Hopefully I can enter text weekly and go from there.

For years, I simply thought I was nuts, or maybe just a little odd. I could not understand why I could function on zero sleep or why I could go from a zillion miles per hour to feeling as if I could dig my own grave and crawl into it.

Solving the cause of a condition that psychiatrists say, "The exact cause of bipolar (Manic Depression) disorder is unknown."

The life with an ADHD and Early Onset Bipolar Child can often be very hard and rewarding at the same time. If anyone has ever experienced a life with an ADHD and Early Onset Bipolar Child they will know exactly where I'm coming from.

What is Bi-polar disorder?

Bipolar disorder is something that not many people know enough about and even fewer people know how to treat. While it is true that there is no way to cure this disorder as of now, there are certain measures that you can take to live with it.

Bipolar disorder otherwise known as manic-depressive disorder is a condition that causes abnormal fluctuations in a person's mood and manner.

How to spot Bi-Polar Disorder in yourself or someone you love.

Understanding and living with a mate with a mood disorder can be hurtful and tiring. We want to become proactive in helping our relationships to survive by educating ourselves on the various disorders and deal with the symptoms accordingly.

The mental illness has again come to the forefront, thanks to Britney Spears, but she is by no means the first famous person to have suffered from bipolar disorder.

We hear much about bipolar disorder in the news these days. It is just one mental disease among many, but it seems the time we hear most about it is when some terrible crime has taken place.

How does one disseminate the reality of the above-mentioned conditions, and who can make them, and theory on some motivation on "label Makers."

This is an article dealing with mental health, specifically SAD disorder.

The author shares a familiar feature of her popular blog on another site. Her "ordinary people" interviews and literary works have launched her blog to a level of global prominence, ranking her in the top 5 blogs among a "community" of over 200,000 blogs there.

For many parents, the struggle with raising an ADHD child is significant. In many of these children, the co-morbidity of Oppositional Defiant Disorder is quite common, only compounding the degree to which these children require care.

This paper takes a look at Bipolar disorder to assess what it is, how it affects the human brain and behavioral systems, who it affects, what causes it, and how to treat it.

The study was authored Mark Frye, M.D., who currently is the director of the Mayo Clinic Mood Disorders Clinic and Research Program.

A challenge to the psychiatric profession.

Increasing your Lamictal dosage is intimidating. You just got used to the side effects of your current dose of Lamictal. Here's my experience with increasing my Lamictal dose from 50 milligrams to 100 milligrams.

Taking a look at some common personality disorders that have a tremendous effect on relationships.

Bipolar is a mental illness that can break families apart.

There are times I feel crazy and completely out of control. It's like being two people, only you are both inside your head making you feel like the best or worst person that you could possibly be.

Having to deal with children who have been diagnosed with attention deficit disorder along with their parents every day in my line of work (pharmacy) I decided to observe the people around me and their family lives.

Even though Schizophrenia and Bi-Polar share few similarities in symptoms and characteristics, they are both treated and medicated very differently.

Schizophrenia is a mental illness in which recovery is possible. Typically, the recovery time is several years. Medications and therapy have been used to overcome this mental disorder.

A person with an IED diagnosis behaves disproportionately violently and aggressively in situations where such actions are considered extreme; his behavior is inconsistent with the degree or severity of the stressor or situation. Is such behavior rare?

I once described my body as a celery stalk covered in Silly Putty. I'm at once fat and skinny-I am that guy.

Often we do not realize how negative our interpretations of events, the world, and our lives are. What we tell ourselves affects our mood and behavior, can feed debilitating depression and can ruin our lives. There is help through Cognitive Therapy.

The topic of happiness and how we become happier, how we reach happiness, and how we deal with happiness, has been on my mind a lot recently.

I've had depression for most of my life. I've tried not to, but I still live with depression. Here are a few things I've picked up while in hospitals, with different doctors, and talking to different people.

Cheri Huber's books give a fresh perspective on how to use spiritual awareness to let go of self-hate, fear, and depression. Learn how you can heal your thoughts with The Depression Book and There Is Nothing Wrong with You.

Reading The American Medical Association's Essential Guide to Depression and Richard O'Connor's book Undoing Depression: What Therapy Doesn't Teach You and Medication Can't Give You will give you important information on healing depression.

Who is General Hospital's leading man, Sonny Corinthos? Find out about the sexy bad boy of Port Charles and his steamy love life.

If you are a headache sufferer, you know pain. Okay, this sounds like a television commericial. But this is no joke. Migraines and headaches causes severe pain. Topamax lessened my pain. This is why I don't want to live without it.

The Schizophrenic life journey I am traveling with my son is frightening and forever changing. His amazing ability to cope and will to live, however, in spite of the suffering, has confirmed for me that the greatest of all healing powers is love.

When you consider renting to own, your family is sure to think you've lost your mind. Are their fears well-founded? Is renting the wave of the future? Here I recount a humorous experience with Rent to Own equipment and offer helpful hints.

There are many medical, physical and psychological issues that adopted toddlers may face, whether adopted domestically or from another country.