Depression and Bipolar Disorder

seroquel. its not really a bipolar med. my doctor perscribed it to me for my anxiety. it really works too. but it was also perscribed to me for sleeping problems so u can only take about 25mg for anxiety, ortherwise you fall dead alseep!

Most people in their lifetime however sinful will want to kill someone, however if you do kill someone then that is not normal.

To be honest theres not really a cause. In some cases it's stress or problems with birth. Some mothers think it's normal to not have any feelings for their baby at first but when the feeling of 'love' doesn't start to grow they know there is something wrong. Postnatal depression is usually a side effect or problems giving birth to their newborn. Heavy bleeding can cause stress and they feel that it is the child's fault for all the problems.

I dont think it effects it at all. I went through i huge depression stae for about 3 years straight where i was just never happy and now im one of the most intellectual and responsible people i know. Heck, if anything it helped me because i had to think about how good i was at stuff to get over the depression

Some common causes of neck pain usually comes from the spine. Muscular tightness in the neck and upper back along with pinching of nerves coming from the cervical vertebrae are the most common causes.

Women, because they generally have more emotional outlets and are more likely to get help for emotional problems, tend to suicide less than men, but the number of suicides that are notcaused by depression is vanishingly small, regardless of gender.

No one knows what causes bipolar disorder in most people, although it can be caused by brain damage (either from injury or from drug use).

There are many different neurotransmitters believed to be involved in mental ill-health. Dopamine is one neurotransmitter believed to be involved in Schizophrenia. Serotonin is another which is involved in Schizophrenia as well as OCD (this in no way suggests that Schizophrenia and OCD are connected).

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I am sure most people if not all, experience a depression at one stage or another throughout life.

As people cope different to depressions, this might be very much noticeable, or not so much noticeable.

It is part of life to experience ups and downs.

A dear boyfriend or girlfriend may go a different way.

Something most people can relate to.

unfortunately some experience this as in being very high up when happy, and very low down when sad.

It is important to have good friends to chat with during a down-period.

Likewise, share with your friends your up-periods.

This will minimize the effect of a depression and it can most likely be turned so that it does not become a severe depression that might "need" medication to overcome.

Good friends is the best medicine there is.

"Cheer up, or I'll give you something to really cry about!" *PUNCH*

Make sure they know that while you won't pressure them to talk about it, you are there if they want to. Make sure they know you value them.

Find the "life" causes. Many times depression starts as a situational reaction. No matter how deep he has dug himself in the right "sunlight" can give him something to grow toward. I am not being flippant. Help him see and change the things he can. The things he can not change will be minimized. Consider diet. I have an odd reaction to dark colored soda pop. See also "49 days to the work you love."

This depends on the type of depression. Major depression might need a combination of anti-depressants and professional therapy, while less significant depression could be changed with one treatment. However, there is never a guarantee that the depression will be cured.

No, the symptoms are too different. Depression can only cause cognative problems that might be confused with ADD in older people, but ADHD has hyperactivity as a symptom, whereas people with depression typically have the exact opposite.

== == It is possible, especially when they are in the "manic" phase of the illness, particularly if they experience psychotic symptoms, such as hearing voices or having delusional beliefs. When bi-polar people are "high" they lose their usual inhibitions, which would include the inhibition not to be violent towards other people. This could make them "lash out" physically or verbally against an "innocent bystander" if they misconstrued something that had been said, or just imagined something had been said. They are likely to over-react to anything they take as "thwarting" their plans, however unrealistic these may be. Another possibility is that on some level they are aware that they are unwell and need help, but instead of admitting this, they "engineer" a situation, which may involve violence, in order to demonstrate that they need help. I disagree with the above statement, as someone who for many years has bipolar. There are very fine lines in between diagnosing mental health disorders. Plus there is a lot of unknown of how and why of disorders. Hearing voices or having delusional beliefs on the very extreme of symptoms for mania, "sometimes, severe episodes of mania or depression include symptoms of '''psychosis (or psychotic symptoms). I believe the more correct mental disorder would be Borderline personality disorder (BPD) - which can co-exist with bipolar''' * Borderline personality disorder (BPD)is a serious mental illness characterized by pervasive instability in moods, interpersonal relationships, self-image, and behavior. This instability often disrupts family and work life, long-term planning, and the individual's sense of self-identity. Originally thought to be at the "borderline" of psychosis, people with BPD suffer from a disorder of emotion regulation. While less well known than schizophrenia or bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness), BPD is more common, affecting 2 percent of adults, mostly young women.1 There is a high rate of self-injury without suicide intent, as well as a significant rate of suicide attempts and completed suicide in severe cases.2,3 Patients often need extensive mental health services, and account for 20 percent of psychiatric hospitalizations.4 Yet, with help, many improve over time and are eventually able to lead productive lives. * While a person with depression or bipolar disorder typically endures the same mood for weeks, a person with BPD may experience intense bouts of anger, depression, and anxiety that may last only hours, or at most a day. These may be associated with episodes of impulsive aggression, self-injury, and drug or alcohol abuse. Distortions in cognition and sense of self can lead to frequent changes in long-term goals, career plans, jobs, friendships, gender identity, and values. Sometimes people with BPD view themselves as fundamentally bad, or unworthy. They may feel unfairly misunderstood or mistreated, bored, empty, and have little idea who they are. Such symptoms are most acute when people with BPD feel isolated and lacking in social support, and may result in frantic efforts to avoid being alone. * People with BPD often have highly unstable patterns of social relationships. While they can develop intense but stormy attachments, their attitudes towards family, friends, and loved ones may suddenly shift from idealization (great admiration and love) to devaluation (intense anger and dislike). Thus, they may form an immediate attachment and idealize the other person, but when a slight separation or conflict occurs, they switch unexpectedly to the other extreme and angrily accuse the other person of not caring for them at all. Even with family members, individuals with BPD are highly sensitive to rejection, reacting with anger and distress to such mild separations as a vacation, a business trip, or a sudden change in plans. These fears of abandonment seem to be related to difficulties feeling emotionally connected to important persons when they are physically absent, leaving the individual with BPD feeling lost and perhaps worthless. Suicide threats and attempts may occur along with anger at perceived abandonment and disappointments. * People with BPD exhibit other impulsive behaviors, such as excessive spending, binge eating and risky sex. BPD often occurs together with other psychiatric problems, particularly bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety disorders, substance abuse, and other personality disorders. Source: nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/borderline-personality-disorder-fact-sheet

The specific physical symptoms of conversion disorder may include a loss of balance or paralysis of an arm or leg; the inability to swallow or speak; the loss of touch or pain sensation; going blind or deaf; seeing double;.hallucinations, seizures.

Bipolar disorder can run in families. My mother (who is now deceased), older sister and daughter all are bipolar. It can skip generations or only one person in the family can be affected. My daughter's doctor advised that her children run a 25 percent chance of being bipolar.

• Bipolar - mood disorder, involves cycles of extremely exaggerated high and low mood
• Depression - mood disorder, involves periods of extremely exaggerated low mood
• Anxiety - anxiety disorder, involves extreme anxiety and fears that does not correspond to real world dangers

When you feel as though you need to cry but no tears will flow then you are still crying inside you may even be screaming but no sound comes forth from you but you could still be screaming inside as crying uncontrollably and screaming inside without making a sound are just as if not more painful for you often a pain that you have never experienced before with that kind of intensity and so you think that you should be crying as you would usually when you are hurt but the pain that brings no tears and the screaming inside which brings forth no sound from you happens to everyone for the first time at some point in your life and you wont know how to handle it and so your body remains numb for a while until your body and soul adjust themselves to the totally unbeleivable pain that you must be feeling then and only then will the tears fall and the screaming or sobbing will rack through you like you have never known often continuing over a period of time depending on what has caused these feelings within you but they do ease and despite what you may be feeling at the time maybe you will think that you will never be able to smile again but you will believe me and you will never forget what it was that caused you to feel so hurt but you will grow to go on with life and be able to take so many more knocks and come out of those unscathed due to that terrible pain which you have lived through after all if you survived through that then you can survive anything which life throws at you cant you this is true and although it seems impossible to you now as indeed it also felt for me when i had to experience this kind of pain for myself here i am still standing as living proof so that's the best answer i can come up with you will cry tears once your body and soul have prepared themselves for whats coming but you are strong and so let them come let them fall wail rock scream whatever comes until you are all cried out and once the pain eases as you heal from it you will grow stronger and be able to appreciate my answer a little better and maybe be able to give your advice to someone else that is experiencing racking pain just as you may be feeling now and you will know the feeling of a different kind of pain then when that happens because your heart will go out to them as you will know that there will be nothing that you are able to tell them that is going to shoulder any of their pain and all you are able to do is tell them the same as i have tried to tell you here brightest blessings love n light x

In the Mental Health field, Bipolar Affective Disorder is a major mood disorder with alternating mood states of Mania and Depression often interspersed with normal mood states.

Manias involve excessive exuberant moods and high degrees of energy.

Depressions involve excessive poor moods and low energy levels.

They are therefore as opposite as two magnetic poles (as, for example, the North Pole is the opposite of the South).

Thus, bipolar describes the opposite nature of the two dominant mood traits using the analogy of polarity.

The stigma associated with a diagnosis of Bipolar disorder on patients is a serious problem.

Legally, Bipolar patients are denied security clearances as a matter of course, due to a perception of personal instability and bad moral conduct. They may not serve in the armed forces or in the police. They are almost universally denied life insurance at any realistic cost due to a perception that they are invariably suicidal, even though life insurance policies do not pay at all in cases of suicide. Public knowledge that an individual has ever been treated for the condition is seen as a near total bar to holding public office.

The drugs they take are associated in pop culture with angst and inner turmoil (Nirvana's album Lithium, being a prominent reference).

The conditions name is often used to describe mercurial indivduals who clearly do not have the disorder.

Sometimes when people have depression, one of the symptoms is sometimes abnormal pains that occur for an unknown reason.. before i started taking prosac for my depression i used to always get stomach pains. But now im on anti-depressants they have calmed down a bit.

i hope i helped :) x

Depression in adolescence can be caused by a variety of factors. At this age changes in hormones, conflict with parents and peers or overall transition to adulthood can be precipitators. Adolescents have a higher suicide rate than adults and if depression is suspected, it's important to get them treatment.

Not that i know of. Doctors will say they have cures but its just chemical castration which doesn't stop the urges or behavior. The only way would either be hypnotism or to ween yourself off of it. you shouldn't need to cure it, and if someone tells you that you do than they are wrong. It's perfectly normal, people just don't understand it. don't tell people about it if you don't think they will accept you. you could try to find some websites with more information.

People with underlying medical/mental disorders or illnesses, people in abusive relationships, people who have experienced their parents divorcing, people in low economic households. These people are vulnerable, but depression can happen to anyone.