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Bipolar disorder
It interferes with the effectiveness of antidepressant medications.
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Brian Quinn has written: 'Bipolar disorder' -- subject(s): Bipolar Disorder, Diagnosis, Diagnosis, Differential, Differential Diagnosis, Manic-depressive illness, Therapy
A doctor, who has made the bipolar diagnosis, would usually prescribe medication which would deal with the highs and lows typical of the condition. An example of this would be lithium carbonate. So a sufferer would not necessarily be prescribed just an antidepressant. Moreover, most type 1 Bipolar patients are not treated by use of a single drug. Generally a cocktail of a mood stabilizer, anti-depressant and anti-psychotic are indicated. Furthermore, SSRI class anti-depressants (Prozsac for example) are generally counter-indicated in the treatment of Bipolar patients as they can trigger manias. It is important to go and get the correct diagnosis, in order to be on the right medication for you. There are many excellent examples of medication available now, which can give a bipolar sufferer a much more stable life. If you are bipolar, you would need treatment for this debilitating illness. But you could be suffering from something else. Better to get checked out as soon as possible.
There are 2 diagnostic suffixes that can be added to the diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder --"rapid cycling" and "with seasonal pattern."
Temporal lobe epilepsy and bipolar disorder
If you have symptoms of both the correct diagnosis is schizoaffective disorder.
Some of the tests that are required in order to give a patient the diagnosis of being bipolar include a physical exam, lab tests, psychological evaluation, and mood charting.
no, if you have bipolar you were born with it. The symptoms usually start to show when major stressors or triggers arise during a lifetime. Mostly in the teenage years.
He/she has a Bipolar mentallity
The only person I think you should trust on making such an impotent diagnosis as bipolar disorder in a child is a doctor that you have done extensive research on. And even if the doctor is trusted it never hurts to get a second opinion.