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What element restores balance and helps with manic depression and bipolar disorder?
Lithium, usually taken in the form of its carbonate salt was the first effective mood stabilizer discovered. Lithium was accidentally found to be sedating in mice while attempting to study the effects of urea on them. This observation eventually lead to trying it in the treatment of the manic phase of Bipolar disorder, but it was actually found to limit both manic and depressive phases.
Now there are many other mood stabilizers available to pick from, most of these new ones were originally antiseizure medications used to treat epilepsy.
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What is another name for manic depression illness?
Manic depression, or manic depressive disorder is nowadays more commonly known as Bipolar disorder or Bipolar affective disorder. It can also be referred to as Hypomania due to public unawareness.
Is it possible to have ADHD bipolar disorder depression and anxiety?
Someone with bipolar disorder already has periods of depression, and a symptom of depression can include anxiety. The increased energy levels associated with the manic episodes of bipolar disorder may look like ADHD. An individual with bipolar disorder is not likely to be diagnosed separately for depression, ADHD, or anxiety.
Did Sylvia Plath suffer from depression or bipolar disorder?
Sylvia Plath suffered from depression throughout her life. There is no evidence to suggest that she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
Is the condition commonly known as manic depression is the mood disorder known as bipolar disorder?
There is no such thing as manic depressive behavior.Manic depression (more correctly called bipolar disorder) has a characteristic collection of mood related symptoms and is thus a mood disorder.
What is opposite of bipolar disorder?
Bipolar depression refers to frequent mood changes between depression and mania, the focal point of Unipolar depression is the negative emotions and feelings that an affected individual experiences. The unipolar indicates that the depression does not alter between the two mood states.
What is bi polar depression?
Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder in which the sufferer suffers cycles of highs (mania/hypomania) and lows (depression). There are three main types; bipolar I (depression, full-blown mania), bipolar II (depression, hypomania) and cyclothymia (mild depression, hypomania).
What is Manic depression usually called?
bipolar disorder
What is the other name for manic depression?
Bipolar Disorder
Is bipolar disorder the same as organic mood disorder?
I have bipolar 2 and according to what I have read, yes bipolar is the same as an organic mood disorder. There is two types of organic mood disorders, those that involve depression only and those that involve bipolar. Bipolar involves periods of depression and periods of mania.
What are signs of clinical depression?
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Is there another term for bipolar?
If you are referring to bipolar disorder, it used to be called manic-depression.
Manic depression is now usually called blink disorder?
Maniac depression is now called bipolar disorder.
