subject: Treatment Of Bipolar Disorder [print this page] Bipolar disorder is known by many names. It is called as manic depressive disorder or bipolar affective disorder that causes shifts in person moods, energy and ability to work properly. As the name suggests, it is a depressive condition that usually unite with mania to make it manic depressive illness or disorder. It usual in one life that we have off and on peaks in our moods and faces many up and downs in our behavior according to different situations. But if youre the one suffering from bipolar disorder, these variations in your moods and behavior can be more severe than usual.
Symptoms
Primary symptoms of bipolar disorder generally include the quick swings in ones mood. Elevated, dramatic and unpredictable moods are the obvious symptoms of bipolar disorder. In many cases they lost control over themselves as they dont care about eating or drinking or dont even realize the injury caused to them by their own rash acts. They might feel hallucinated and the interesting thing about all this is that they all the time believe that they are acting and behaving like a normal person.
Two important aspects should be kept in mind while talking about the symptoms of the bipolar disorder; manic symptoms and depression symptoms.
-Manic Symptoms: These include uneasiness, restlessness, an energy boost, excitement, and stimulation, running thoughts, excessive or uncontrollable feelings. Hence, the person becomes crazy and making grand and attainable plans. An impulsive behavior overtook the person in bipolar manic symptoms.
-Depression Symptoms: Unlike manic symptoms, depression symptoms are far less in intensity, the person feel sad, gloomy, lonely, loss of energy, anxiety, increased sleep, lost decision making power, hopelessness, and full of self loathing.
It is often observed that the manic phase always occur before depression phase. The history of moods shifts is associated with the bipolar patients. Diagnosis of the disorder is possible as soon as the manic phase would identify. It is possible to diagnose the disorder only when the manic phase occurs. It is not necessary to have both phases to diagnose the disorder.
Treating Bipolar Disorder
The treatment of the bipolar disorder is based on long term plan. Patient has to take medicine for a time after which they feel that they do not need any more medication. The most common treatment for bipolar disorder is a long term course based on two drugs, i.e. lithium carbonate and carbamazepine. These drugs do have side effects as well. There are other treatments like EPA and high EPA (essential fatty acid supplements). These supplements have the tendency to keep the mood in stabilize form without much shifts. So, these are also used for the treatment of bipolar disorder.
by: Tauqeer Hassan
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