What can you do 2 prevent bipolar attacks?

Answer 1

Preventing Bipolar disorder is very difficult since it is a medical condition that is not "caught" but rather spawns within the mind. There is very little that can be done to "prevent" a mental disorder other than treating people with respect.

Answer 2

Bipolar has a strong genetic component, but it is often brought our by extreme and severe stress. You can carry a bipolar gene and never have the disease manifest. Extreme & unrelenting emotional stress can bring the disease to the surface. It usually strikes in the 20s but can occur in children. Reduce the stress, avoid stress and take fish oil supplements to support the brain if it runs in your family.

Answer 3

If I'm correct in assuming Bipolar 2 is characterized by hypomania, then the treatment would be to get perscribed antidepressants.

SSRIs have been shown to have mood stabilizing abilities, as well as improving depressive episodes.

The best advice I can give is to keep taking medication, and try to find an outlet for the hypomanic episodes, as they will probably still occur on medication.

Antidepressants aren't a cure for depression, they give you the time to try and learn how to live with it, avoid trigger situations, etc.

If you play sport, or have a similar hobby, then this could make for a good outlet to the frustration you feel in a hypomanic phase

I do not control it and let the depression take control of me. once this happens I become a super sayan and am invincible. someday I will rule the world and make everyone depressed like me.

Answer 4

I was diagnosed with Bipolar disorder in 2006 but the catastrophic damage to my life was already done and the long painful quest to find the right combination of medications to stabilize my disorder had just begun. I spent over 150 days of the next 2 years in hospital physic wards over 6 stays until the right combination of meds was found in March of 2008. At this point, Bipolar Disorder had cost me my marriage, destroyed or severely damaged most of my personal and business relationships and was responsible for the loss of my businesses, two homes, all my savings and retirement. Below is my relationship with Bipolar Disorder.

When I'm maniac it feels like I just won money. It feels great. When I'm depressed, I feel like I have a draining flu that dwells in my emotions. It can physically hurt. When I have a manic episode, it begins innocently enough with such thoughts as you are at one with nature and then, all the stars are aligned with the numbering system and then, these numbers translate into a hidden language that only you know how to decipher and on and on your thought process is running at an exponential speed. As this speed begins to melt your thoughts after 3 to 5 sleepless nights you are left in a mental state where everything has new meaning and you created a new reality which really is true. This reality stays with you until you get on some sort of medication that will take one to two weeks to take effect and it is unknown whether it will really work well at all. I was let out of the hospital 5 times on the wrong combinations of meds only to return a week or month or two months later. During this time, I had probably embarrassed myself a number of times, said things that I did not mean, did things I had no business doing and this obviously creates long term memories in others around you that are not easily forgotten or forgiven. People are scared at what they are witnessing, a friend or family member being taken away to a physic ward because they are "crazy". Many abandon you.

From the time I was 16, I was self medicating with alcohol 3-4 times a week and at 18 it was a daily ritual that lasted until I was 43 years old. From what I heard, I appeared to be a happy restaurateur who liked to drink his fare share. When 9/11 occurred I became extremely unhinged and spiraled into a deep depression. I often thought about jumping from my deck or walking off the pier into the Hudson River but I never told anyone this. My wife was worried and got me a therapist in October and he agreed with me that it made sense to quit my job, give up my businesses and after three months of visiting him, I did just that. I sold my businesses for scrap, resigned and started up a new international telecommunications company with a friend. We had a 5 page business plan and no funding and the financial stress and anxiety of paying the bills and mortgage on a new penthouse as well as self funding the company put a lot of stress on my marriage and my life in general. Stress and Anxiety are two of the triggers that prompt a manic episode in me. It's like lighting a match and holding over a tub of gasoline. It's only a matter of time until the fumes ignite and you have a raging fire. In my case, I was putting out the fire with alcohol over and over again, 24/7 and this is where my drinking escalated to drinking in the mornings to quell the mania. This doesn't work well as now you are drunk all the time instead of just happy and I felt like that plane in war that gets all shot up and is trying to hold it together even though bits and pieces are falling away. My life was disintegrating and I was out of control.The ability for Bipolar Disorder to "hide" right behind my increasing alcohol use over the years prolonged my diagnoses and this directly impacted the level of devastation the disorder caused in my life. I wish there was more of a relationship expressed everywhere and to everyone concerning the disorder and alcohol/drug abuse. I bet there are quite a few parents, wives and people in general at the end of the rope not knowing why their loved one can't control an alcohol or drug problem and the fact is that they are witnessing a symptom of Bipolar Disorder.

Hope this helps.

Answer 5

If you have been diagnosed you should get in contact with a psychiatrist in order to get help.

Answer 6

Bipolar disorder is not a preventable illness. It is present at birth and exists throughout one's life.