Bipolar Disorder Support - Articles
Support Group for Bipolar Disorder in Singapore
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Nancie ..
I just received an email from N in Singapore who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder last year. She mentioned that she is in dire need of a Support Group and other helps. I checked out Institute of Mental Health (IMH)'s website but can't find any information on Support Group for Bipolar Disorder. I did a quick search on Google and could not find ...
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Bipolar Disorder
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Clueless C.
My therapist and I get into some really odd topics. But, I guess after 21 years or so, we probably have a pretty odd relationship. He is the odd one. Anyway, a while back we were talking about the weather and how it was changing 30 degress in two days 40 degress in a week. It was driving me crazy and to be even crazier, my therapist started talking ...
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NIMH & Bipolar Disorder
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Kate McLaughlin.
The National Institute of Mental Health, funded by our tax dollars, has developed an excellent informational pamphlet about bipolar disorder. Useful for new patients, families, friends and support personnel, the easy-to-read publication, excerpted below, answers frequently asked questions about the illness.What is bipolar disorder?Bipolar disorder ...
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Bipolar Disorder
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Noman Khan
What is Bipolar Disorder? Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, is an illness involving one or more episodes of serious mania and depression. The illness causes a person’s mood to swing from excessively “high” and/or irritable to sad and hopeless, with periods of a normal mood in between. More than 2 million Americans ...
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Symptoms of Bipolar Disorder
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Kate McLaughlin.
What are the symptoms of bipolar disorder?Bipolar mood changes are called “mood episodes.”People may have manic episodes, depressive episodes, or “mixed” episodes.A mixed episode has both manic and depressive symptoms.These mood episodes cause symptoms that last a week or two-sometimes longer.During an episode, the symptoms ...
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About Bipolar Disorder (Manic-depressive illness)
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Nancie ..
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This article is taken fromthe website of National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). NIMH said "NIMH publications are in the public domain and may be reproduced or copied without the permission from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). NIMH encourages you to reproduce them and use them in your efforts to improve public health. Citation o ...
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Bipolar Disorder and the Bible
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Michele Soloway Sexton
Hey, y’all –
I recently read the following Scripture: “This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.” -John 11:4 and I think that this should be the Scripture for anyone who has a mental illness or supports someone who does.
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Treatment for Bipolar Disorder
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Kerri S.
The psychiatrists say there is an easy and proven treatment for Bipolar Disorder. Lithium combined with various antidepressants do just the trick. I looked up the Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments ( CANMAT) for the management of patients with bipolar disorder: update 2007: The recommendations for the management of acute mania remain ...
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Blood Test for Bipolar Disorder
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Anonymous Mom
Mood markers isolated in blood open informative window into brain func... http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-02/iu-mmi022108.php Public release date: 25-Feb-2008 Contact: Mary L. Hardin mhardin@iupui.edu 317-274-7722 Indiana University Mood markers isolated in blood open informative window into brain functioning and disease Ind ...
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Bipolar Disorder and Parenthood
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RichWallace
When my wife and I had our first child, we we’re ecstatic and terrified at the same time. The first few nights home were the most stressful times of our lives together and although we pulled through and are the proud parents of four wonderful kids, we soon learned that parenthood did not mix well with the presence of mental illness in the fa ...
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