| Everybody has changes in moods, or mood swings, | | | | help them through both the good and the bad days |
| from having days where we feel good to bad days | | | | and to ensure they take their medication on time |
| where we feel depressed or down. Bipolar affective | | | | every time.3- Bipolar affective disorder can be |
| disorder is the extreme of these circumstances and | | | | effectively treated through a combination of mood |
| is both debilitating and often very dangerous. Bipolar | | | | stabilizer drugs and psychotherapy. It is important |
| affective disorder has a number of disadvantages | | | | that the patient sees a psychiatrist in preference to |
| such as poor or broken down family relationships, loss | | | | a physician because while any doctor can prescribe |
| of job and possibly self harm or suicide. it is possible | | | | the required medication only a psychiatrist can really |
| for children to show the first symptoms of bipolar | | | | help.4- The most severe cases of bipolar affective |
| disease but it surfaces around late adolescence or | | | | disorder can lead to cases of self harm and even |
| early adulthood. Bipolar affective disorder is a disease | | | | suicide if left unchecked. If you are under any |
| and it should be treated as such by the patient, the | | | | suspicion that a patient or you are likely to try kill |
| patients network of family and friends and the | | | | themselves then you should contact the emergency |
| doctors and psychiatrists that help with the | | | | services immediately.5- It is not possible to diagnose |
| treatment.1- 1 percent of the American population | | | | bipolar affective disorder physiologically, i.e. through a |
| suffer from bipolar affective disorder. That is roughly | | | | blood test or a scan or x-ray and the only real way |
| 2 million American adults. Yet it is still often | | | | to tell is through psychoevaluation and a judgment on |
| misdiagnosed or simply not treated as a disease. It | | | | any symptoms that have presented themselves. |
| has to be taken very seriously by everyone | | | | There are some physical symptoms but these can be |
| concerned if the patient is to have a reasonable | | | | attributed to a number of other diseases.John Mancini |
| chance of recovery.2- Bipolar affective disorder has a | | | | has been writing about Bipolar Disorder online and |
| detrimental effect not only on the patient's life but | | | | offline for a long time. Visit or to read more about |
| also on the people around them. They will need the | | | | matters like bipolar disorder treatment and famous |
| love and care of those closest to them in order to | | | | people with bipolar disorder. |