Bipolar+Disorder

Bipolar Disorder

What is Bipolar Disorder?

Bipolar disorder (also known as manic depression) causes serious shifts in mood, energy, thinking, and behavior. Unlike typical mood swings, the mood changes of bipolar disorder are so high that they disturb your ability to function. More than just a short good or bad mood, the cycles of bipolar disorder last for days, weeks, or months.

What Causes it? Bipolar disorder has no single cause. It appears that certain people are genetically meant to develop bipolar disorder.
 * **Stress –** Stressful life events can trigger bipolar disorder. These events tend to involve drastic or sudden changes–either good or bad–such as getting married, going away to college, losing a loved one, getting fired, or moving.

What are the symptoms? Common symptoms of bipolar depression include: They can last a week, month or a year. Sometime it can be deadly because they think about death or suicide, they could really suicide or die of too much depression. With the depression you can develop more diseases.
 * * Feeling hopeless, sad, or empty.
 * bad
 * Inability to experience pleasure
 * loss of energy
 * Physical and mental lack of energy || * Appetite or weight changes
 * Sleep problems
 * Concentration and memory problems
 * Feelings of worthlessness or guilt
 * Thoughts of death or suicide ||

Can Bipolar be cured? If so, how? If not, is there any way that we can at least treat it? Bipolar can't be cured, but it can be controlled. The patients get medication that controls the depression and the mood swings.

1) The common and scientific name of the disease.

RESOURCES: http://www.helpguide.org/mental/bipolar_disorder_symptoms_treatment.htm