bipolar mood disorder

Are There Any Documented Cases of a More Severe Form of Mood Disorder Turning Into a Less Severe One?

Question by bluguy57: Are There Any Documented Cases of A More Severe Form of Mood Disorder Turning Into A Less Severe One? I know hypomania can sometimes progress into bipolar disorder or even full blown mania. Has the opposite ever happened? Where a more severe expression of bipolar disorder or chronic severe mania “calmed down” into a lesser variation of “mood disorder” such as cyclothymia or chronic hypomania? I wasn’t asking for generalities. I meant any documented cases. Some progressive disorders rarely feature a few isolated cases where it regresses and overtime scientists tend to classify these cases as separate disorders requiring different treatments. Read more... ...

I Need Help, Please. I’m Desperate.?

Question by rocket: I need help, please. I’m desperate.? They’re going to try to admit me today. They’ve got all they need to do it… but I don’t want to go. I am terrified and confused and I don’t want to lose any of my “options.” I am just so f-cking scared. I finally patched things up between me and a very close friend/mentor/employer, and life has seemed to have gotten better. But it hasn’t. I still feel like sh-t and I still want to die. It never seems to go away, and I started acting on it again two days ago. I get to feeling so out of control, but I don’t know what to do. Read more... ...

Study Testing Aspirin as Bipolar Disorder Treatment

...  testing aspirin as bipolar disorder treatment Filed under: bipolar mood disorder HOUSTON (KTRK) — A drug that you have in your medicine cabinet may be helpful in treating bipolar disorder. The illness affects almost six million Americans, and its mood swings from extreme happiness to extreme depression has ruined lives. But now … Read more on abc13.com   Creativity Tied To Mental Illnesses Like Bipolar Disorder, Schizophrenia In … Filed under: bipolar mood disorder Read ...

Manic Depression Help

SELF-HELP GROUP NEWSLETTERCambridge manic depression fellowship self-help group _____ newsletter … View This Document 07-15 Bipolar DisorderTraumatic Stress Page 2 • Stressful events can bring it on if the person is likely to suffer from manic depression, but stress by itself does not cause it. What can be done to help? … Return Document A Handy Chart To help You Compare The Medicines To help The …Bipolar Mood Disorder (manic–depression) A handy chart to help you compare the medicines to help the symptoms of bipolar mood disorder You might also want to look at the Handy Charts for bipolar depression and bipolar mania … Fetch Document Read ...

Bipolar Mood Disorder

Mood (Affective Disorders)• risk of unipolar depression in 1st degree relatives of bipolar illness = 11.4 % • overall risk of mood disorder in 1st degree relatives is 20 % … Return Document Bipolar Disorder Coding And Diagnostic CriteriaBipolar I Diagnosis of Bipolar I disorder requires at least one manic or mixed Disorder episode, but there may be episodes of hypomania or major depression DSM-IV-TR Diagnostic Criteria: 1. The mood episodes are not better accounted for by Schizoaffective Disorder and are … Read Document Bipolar Mood Disorderbipolar affective disorder registration criteria: a psychiatrist prescription is required benzodiazepines excluded on chronic benefit *first line agents(used alone or in combination) … Get Doc Read more... ...