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First – What is Bipolar Disorder?
Bipolar disorder is a mental disorder where the sufferer is in extreme mood swings. Thus, while he or she can feel the depression at a time when you will feel mania or extreme feeling of pleasure and heightened activity of the other. This is a situation quite dangerous as the suicide rate is almost double that of normal depression and research also suggests that people who suffer from this disorder face worse depression than people who suffer depression only.
What makes this situation even more dangerous is the incident of suicide in this case and the lifetime risk posed to people who have it.
The following are some symptoms of suicidal feelings among people who suffer from OCD:
Speaking of feeling suicidal or wanting to die at all times of depression and ignored when mania occurs
Feeling hopeless, that nothing will change or improve and get depressed about the current state of affairs.
The feeling of helplessness that you do not make any difference, and in some cases even how Ganged everyone is against you to make your life miserable
Feeling like a burden to family and friends and the feeling of that nothing that is helping or contributing to the family while you are living your sympathy
Putting things in order (for example, the organization finances (paying debts) or giving away assets to prepare for death), basically, doing things you do in life, when the thought of death begins to forward and when you think your days are numbered
Endangered, or in situations where there is danger of being killed, the creation of circumstances threatening the life or at least he sets off for Harman
Abusing alcohol or drugs
If you have experienced these emotions are seeing it witnesses himself or someone similar emotions primarily to a doctor and then save all that you can use to cause harm, like hiding knives and blades and maintenance of other objects that can be used to inflict self harm away.
The treatment of bipolar disorder
At present, the disorder bipolar can not be treated but can be managed to control long-term consequences of the disease. The treatment is done primarily through pharmacology and psychological techniques and most people with bipolar disorder is a combination of drugs.
Since bipolar disorder is the people passing by the mania and depression medication prescribed is what is known as mood stabilizing and antidepressant.
What this means really is that doctors prescribe mood stabilizers to control mania, and then take care of antidepressants for depression. Lithium is the most oldest and most popular mood that stabilization of medicine is most effective and is also known to reduce suicidal. However, as with all medicines there are side effects of lithium too, such as high blood pressure, excess water retention and constipation.
Antidepressants also used in patients but there is a need to be careful not to induce mania after taking antidepressants such and are usually prescribed and only after mood stabilizers have been taken by the patient and the chance of getting into the habit of reducing.
Another thing to consider is that different Patients react differently to medications and could take 4 to-6 weeks for a patient to respond to medication. In this case the patient should not give up medicine. In addition patients should not stop taking the medicine too soon when they see the disappearance of symptoms and take proper medical advice before stopping treatment and ensure that they have completed their medication.
A pointer to friends and family, as in the case of bipolar disorder increases a person who refused to admit that they have any disease at all and therefore compliance of medicine makes it difficult becomes the responsibility of family and friends of the patient.
Author: Kitty Barker – Kitty often writes for and with Depression-Assistance. You can also see more information on this subject at Manic Depression – should this link be inactive, you can paste this link to your browser – manic-depression-assistance.com/
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