There are a lot of words a person could use to describe bipolar disorder — and ‘predictable’ isn’t one of them. A disorder characterized by vacillations between episodes of high energy (mania) and depression, it’s impossible to know exactly when these episodes...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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!...
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