Wednesday, January 17, 2007

My life with bipolar disorder



Health 24 - My life with bipolar disorder We have featured bipolar disorder on this site a couple of times. Today, one of our users I did not know what manic depression was, as it was called at that time, but i suspected that my somewhat bizarre behaviour was
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O Mighty Crisis
Slate - Experts testifying for the prosecution and the defense often agree on a diagnosis—and then clash over whether a defendant's schizophrenia or bipolar disorder or manic depression meant that he didn't know what he was doing and so shouldn't be held
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What is psychosis?
Health 24 - Organic brain damage may also result from toxic reactions to drugs and other toxic substances (toxic psychosis). Bipolar disorder (manic depression): psychosis generally appears as part of a more general mood disturbance. Psychotic symptoms tend to
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Seasonal affective disorder (winter depression)
Tiscali - It is possible that these individuals have a seasonal bipolar affective disorder (seasonal manic depression) and again the mood stabilising treatments for the more common non-seasonal form of the illness are available. What causes winter depression? In
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Fish for depression
Health 24 - In the study ( Archives of General Psychiatry, 5/99), 30 patients with manic depression--also called bipolar disorder--received either fish oil or olive oil (as a placebo) along with their standard medications, including lithium. After four months, 65
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