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MediFocus Guides Help Answer Key Questions about Bipolar Disorder:
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What are the standard treatments for Bipolar Disorder?
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What are your treatment options?
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Are there any promising new and effective treatments on the horizon?
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Where can you find the doctors, hospitals, and medical centers with specialized interest and expertise in Bipolar Disorder?
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Which organizations and support groups can help you cope more effectively with Bipolar Disorder?
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Medifocus Guidebook:
Bipolar Disorder
Updated: July 17, 2008
- Comprehensive overview of
Bipolar Disorder
- Explore your treatment options
- Learn about new developments
- Read medical journal abstracts
- Find doctors, hospitals, research centers
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Introduction
A diagnosis of bipolar disorder - which was more commonly called manic depression - can be very alarming to a patient or the patient's family. However, treatment is advancing steadily and many symptoms can be controlled.
Children, adolescents or adults can suffer this disorder, which is characterized by two opposite extremes of mood: mania and depression. Risk factors can include family history, ADD-HD, stress, abuse, hypothyroidism and even the effect of the time of year.
The usual pattern of bipolar disorder is one of increasing intensity and duration of symptoms that progresses slowly over many years. However, symptoms and severity may vary significantly between individuals. Bipolar disorder can be severe and long-term, or it can be mild with infrequent episodes. People can also experience periods of mixed symptoms.
Manifestations of mania can include periods of grandiosity, decreased need for sleep, talkativeness, racing thoughts, distractibility, psychomotor agitation and excessive involvement in pleasurable activities that can have painful consequences. Depression can involve episodes of irritability, diminished interest, loss of pleasure in most activities, feelings of inappropriate guilt, fatigue, increased or decreased sleep, and even suicidal thoughts, among others. These symptoms call for medical intervention.
Bipolar disorder has significant consequences in an individual's life. Impaired thinking and judgment can lead to poor decision making and impulsiveness. This can have disastrous effects on one's physical and sexual health, and financial and social wellbeing. However, a combination of medications and other forms of therapy, including psychological support, can be very helpful. Several promising new treatments are currently under investigation.
The MediFocus Guidebook on Bipolar Disorder contains information that is vital to anyone who has been diagnosed with this condition.
You will learn about the causes, risk factors, common signs and symptoms, medical tests that are used to establish the diagnosis, and standard treatments. You will also learn about the latest clinical advances in the management of Bipolar Disorder as well as about the newest treatment options that are available.
The MediFocus Guidebook on Bipolar Disorder will also inform you about important new, exciting research in the area of Bipolar Disorder. You will also learn about the doctors, hospitals, and medical centers that are at the leading edge in conducting clinical research about Bipolar Disorder.
Information about clinical trials, quality of life issues, a list of questions to ask your doctor, and a useful directory of organizations and support groups that can help patients with Bipolar Disorder complete this valuable Guidebook.
You won't find this combination of information anywhere else. It is easily accessible right here. We invite you to preview the MediFocus Guidebook on Bipolar Disorder so that you can decide if this comprehensive, trustworthy information may help you or someone you care about who has been diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder.
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