by Mental Health Rehabs Editorial Team | Jun 17, 2022 | Bipolar Disorders, Treatment
If you’re familiar with what bipolar disorder is–a mental illness that causes extreme mood swings that cycle between dramatic highs and lows which can result in sudden and extreme changes in behavior, mood, cognitive ability, energy levels, and more–it...
by Mental Health Rehabs Editorial Team | Apr 19, 2022 | Bipolar Disorders
Bipolar disorder is a mental illness estimated to affect 4.4% of Americans. Unfortunately, this serious mental illness is one shrouded with misconceptions that have resulted in harmful stigmas that have been difficult to shake. One of the best ways to reduce the...
by Tyler Fordham | Jan 21, 2022 | Bipolar Disorders
Are you born with bipolar disorder or is it a mental illness that occurs when something happens to you? Science tells us that it’s a little bit of both. Your genes, the cell-building codes inherited from your parents, can lay the neurobiological groundwork that causes...
by Tyler Fordham | Jan 14, 2022 | Bipolar Disorders
Bipolar disorder affects about 5.7 million Americans (approximately 2.6%) at an equal rate for both men and women. One disparity, however, is how this disorder manifests itself in the different genders. Bipolar disorder symptoms in females can be vastly different from...
by Tyler Fordham | Dec 3, 2021 | Bipolar Disorders, Depression, Treatment
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), perhaps better known more crudely as “shock therapy”, is a medical treatment that’s been proven to be one of the most effective for severe depression and several other serious mental illnesses—it works for about 80% of all patients!...
