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    A Complete Guide To Bipolar Illness

    Bipolar sickness is also known as manic-depressive illness. This is the disorder that involves incidents of serous depression and mania. Bipolar sickness is characterized by sudden mood sways of a person which can abruptly shift from being highly irritable to being overly sad. The alteration from depression to mania and vice versa can eventuate in a very short period of time. The mood fluctuation in bipolar sickness mainly follows a pattern for a person. Analyzing this pattern will aid to foresee the next behavior of a person with bipolar illness.

    There are certain signs that will aid recognize mania from depression. When a person is in the state of mania, bipolar sickness can be recognized via the following symptoms:

    1.hyperactivity which leads to restlessness and talking rapidly
    2.extremely high feelings
    3.excessive irritability
    4.fancy belief to unrealistic powers
    5.poor judgment
    6.increase of sexual urges
    7.abuse of alcohol, cocaine and other drugs
    8.aggressive behaviors
    9.denial that something is wrong with him

    However, when a person is in the state of depression, bipolar sickness can be recognized via the following symptoms:

    1.persistent sadness or anxious mood
    2.pessimism
    3.uncharacterized feelings of unworthiness and guilt
    4.low sex drives
    5.feeling of being tired even without physical activities
    6.decrease in energy level even to ordinary activities
    7.poor judgment
    8.loss of appetite
    9.chronic pains that are not due to physical illness
    10.suicidal tendencies

    Bipolar sickness generally initiates in the adolescence period which is carried on throughout the person's life. The difficulty of this sickness is that it cannot be readily recognized as an illness, rather counted on as attitude problem like hyperactivity or recognition deficit disorders. Because of this, the person who has this sickness suffers for a prolonged period and can even develop its complications such as drug and alcohol abuse, poor quality of job, marital break up or even suicidal tendencies. As of the records, two million Americans suffer the disruptive and distressing implications of bipolar illness.

    The mood states of bipolar sickness follow a spectrum. At an early stage of manic-depressive disorder, hypomania takes place. In this state, the person displays extreme level of energy that can result to reckless and impulsive behaviors. For the person suffering from bipolar illness, he is behaving rightly and will deny that anything is wrong. But for his family and friends, they can already recognize the unlikely behaviors of that person.

    The early signs of bipolar sickness can be mistaken to other troubles such as caused by drug or alcohol abuse. In the latter process, the person can then experience full clinical depression.

    There are several treatments to stabilize the mood of a person with bipolar illness.

    The popularly known stabilizer is lithium. This is a useful medication to control mania and the reoccurrence of both mania and depression episodes. In recent clinical techniques, carbamazepine and valproate are also used as anticonvulsants in cases of refractory episodes of bipolar illness. Scientists have tested the efficiency of anticonvulsant medications in the way of kindling. Kindling is the way when the brain gradually enhances its sensitivity to stress, thus resulting to abnormal activities and behaviors. While lithium is found to block the kindling way in its early signs, carbamazepine and valproate work for the later stages. For the acute cases of mania, valproate drugs are recommended. These are approved treatments by the Food and Drug Administration. For those patients with severe bipolar sickness and do not react to these medications, the electroconvulsive therapy or ECT is of amazing value. This is an effective treatment even for severe depression mixed with frequent mania.

    To counteract the effects of hyperactivity such as insomnia, benzodiazepines clonazepam and lorazepam are useful medications. It is also necessary to make an analysis of the behavioral pattern of the patient as a tool in finding the right treatment to the symptoms of bipolar illness.

    Bipolar sickness is a mental disorder that should readily be treated before its further complications. Otherwise, repeated depression can eventuate and lead to another behavioral and mental problem. And in some cases, mania can be the major problem with occurrences of sudden depression. These are indications that a long term or prophylactic treatment is highly needed.


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