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    Bipolar Disorder
    Bipolar Disorder
    Bipolar Disorder
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    Bipolar Disorder

    By Julia Braun

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    Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder that gives rise to periodic oscillations, more or less sudden, in the sense of depression or euphoria. These oscillations can reach critical levels in extreme episodes in acute character extremely dangerous especially for the safety of patients (in depressions) or work or capital (in the crisis of euphoria).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherALVIS International Editions
    Release dateSep 28, 2012
    ISBN9781301760176
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      Bipolar Disorder - Julia Braun

      Bipolar Disorder

      Julia Braun

      Brian Jones

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      © 2012 Alvis Ed

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      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      From Symptoms to Diagnosis

      The Differential Diagnosis

      The Epidemiology

      Causes of Disorder

      The Risk of Suicide

      Bipolar Disorder and Stress

      Bipolar Disorder and Emotional

      Bipolar Disorder and Nutrition

      The Drug Therapy

      Psychotherapy

      The Family Support

      Management Disorder

      Introduction

      The bipolar disorder is a clinical entity which only recently has begun to receive proper attention along with a diagnostic approach with strategies and psychological understanding satisfactory. Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder that gives rise to periodic oscillations, more or less sudden, in the sense of depression or euphoria. These oscillations can reach critical levels in extreme episodes in acute character extremely dangerous especially for the safety of patients (in depressions) or work or capital (in the crisis of euphoria). Unlike simple mood swings, each episode of bipolar disorder can last for several weeks, the acute phases of the disease are often so extreme that it interferes strongly in everyday life. Often the first phase is that depressive, almost always diagnosed at first, as clinical depression, hereinafter (sometimes even years later) the diagnosis may change in manic episode. In the acute phase of depression, you may have feelings of total worthlessness, which often lead to thoughts of suicide, completely opposite to the feelings of extreme happiness when you create ambitious projects, and is full of ideas, that can bring extreme example. to spend large sums of money for things that do not serve or talk quickly, easily irritable, have no knowledge of food and sleep, these are common elements of the manic phases of bipolar disorder, sometimes the phase hypo-maniacal can become an experience positive for the extreme creativity that characterizes it, but during the manic phase of bipolar disorder, you may also have symptoms of psychosis (seeing or hearing things that are not there).

      Bipolar disorder is a relatively common condition with around 100 people, it can occur at any age, although it often develops in people between the ages of 18-24 years, no difference in sex or nationality, the pattern varies considerably between individuals, i.e., some people have just a couple of bipolar episodes in their lives, while in others they may occur many episodes.

      . What should be emphasized in this introduction, however, is what has changed in the latest medical knowledge and specialized in recent years and it would still have to change in order to achieve realistic quality standards. First, different is the attention it gives to this disorder: a few years ago the diagnosis of bipolar disorder came with at least 10 years later than the first episode. The diagnosis is too often confused and were replaced by other, more traditional and perhaps seemingly easier, such as depression or mania considered separately and not as manifestations of a single disorder, but also diagnosed with schizophrenia or abuse substances. Now the focus is significantly higher. Secondly, the episodes were considered separately from the way of life of the person and his history as a self-made, independent of other factors (personality, temperament, stress, environmental conditions). The result was a sort of crisis culture as if the only reasonable target to be achieved if only the urgent resolution and as quickly as possible, the period of acute illness with no attention to what was happening between a crisis and the other , suspending any form of psychological therapy or medication at the end of each episode. We now know that this is not so, that even these behaviors are completely wrong as well as their conditions and actions so that units can cause more damage than the crisis itself. Now you look much more carefully at the history of the person and try to identify at an early onset of the disorder in order to better clarify the diagnostic doubts, then takes a large value, the course of the disorder and is done on the possibility of preventing other episodes substantially since the main aim of the treatment. At the same time, there is no longer limited to considering only the biological side of the question but insists like never before on the education of 'patients', their ability to get away for a further psychological noise control and extends this opportunity also to family. The discovery of the benefits of proper information and possibly a psychotherapeutic approach depends on a finding in the end very simple. The vast majority of people with bipolar disorder are outside of the crisis and therefore the greater part of their lives, smart people - or even brilliant - affective, capable, available. In short, people full

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