bipolar nursing diagnosis
Although I am a nurse, I would like to hear people being diagnosed with "bipolar". How do I move?
Please give examples of specific types of "mood changes" have experienced. My boyfriend tells me that there is "between" me – I say they are " very happy or mad when things are not my way. "I see this too, but feel powerless to stop it. I often manic and non-stop talking. I feel that 'm more important than some people may think I'm too, I'm afraid. I'm smart and well educated, but this is starting to affect my relationship with my boyfriend and my work. Any advice? What medications work best?
I'm not bipolar, but my parents are schizo-affective, and experience I can tell first-hand from an outside perspective. I also suggest my sister, but since we do not talk much, I did not say anything. Mom = bipolar type 2. In general it is depressed, and just laughs or smiles, but if I say something wrong, can be very sarcastic and say things that are very out of character for her because she is usually very sweet, and it is very strange when she acts out. His bipolar is not as bad as my father. Father = 1 The bipolar type is angry very easily, unless you take control of the situation. any thing you can do annoying, as the computer will not boot up fast enough, a light bulb burning, something little could result in a tantrum that screaming and kicking everything takes place. Being on medication, these things do not happen as much but when he was out of medication, there are plenty of screaming, and hours of abuse. It does depressed, but tries to suppress it, and instead covered with tedious conversations and talk endlessly about how wonderful and amazing it is (the narcissism and grandiosity). Since it is schizophrenic, so he has delusions of thousands of events that never happened, which he believed to be involved in (much like "A Beautiful mind ", but much more manic and more delusions). There are also times when it definitely has racing thoughts, delusions and writes down like crazy, they usually last about a week. My sister, I suspect that he has bipolar, when you call me to say hello, and it looks very nice, but in the next sentence from nothing to call me names and say that I am nothing and hang up. She acts just like when I see it. For example, I helped set up the Internet, and clean the 2 computers for her, took time because we had to buy a part, and there were many mistakes and refuse to fix, and she asked me to fix it, and said we were going to a movie later. After I fixed that immediately said she never asked me to fix it, and she easily could have gone to someone else to do it, (Although they told me when I arrived, she did not know anyone to help him), then called me all sorts of names to say and told me to take the bus (no the unit). I ended up watching the movie myself, as I sat in another room on the computer. That was the last straw, as she does often. Again, we were supposed to go out with friends, and was being very nice, and then laughed and left me somewhere I did not know where he was, no money, so I had to walk a few miles of home. (This was long ago). Sorry to be so long without breath! I just wanted to give some good descriptions from my experiences! Today though I think he's definitely diagnosed bipolar however. Well, I can tell you what my parents were in, Dad is lamotrigine. Mom is in battery (these are only for the bipolar). My mom drug works best, but that's only because my dad really needs to be in a dosage high, but he refuses. Lithium is the best medication that has worked for my mom.
