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Yoga breathing exercises used for bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder often first appears in young adults and may affect as many as 20 out of 1,000 people. As the name bipolar disorder implies, mood swings go from extremes of depression to that of giddiness or excessive energy. Symptoms include weight loss, sleeplessness, and in extreme cases, visual and auditory delusions. According to Alien [...]
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1 Comment » Baylor study finds antidepressants not for bipolar treatment
Baylor College of Medicine’s associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, Laura Marangell, M.D., challenges the use of antidepressants with mood stabilizers. She found that bipolar disorder patients given antidepressants are not relieved from their depression any better than when they are given a placebo. Often bipolar disorder’s mood swings between depression and mania are [...]
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Bipolar Disorder Bipolar I Disorder fact sheet
The Internet Mental Health web site is an excellent resource for information on Bipolar I disorder, which primarily effects young adults to adults (14-44 years-old). It is the 6th leading disability in the developed world. Left untreated a typical Bipolar I patient will experience from 8 to 10 episodes of mania and depression in a [...]
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Bipolar Disorder National Institute of Mental Health fact sheet on bipolar disorder
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) provides information that describes symptoms, causes, and treatments for bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder effects about 5.7 million American adults. Typically the disorder develops in late adolescence or early adulthood. However, in some the first symptoms occur in childhood and still for others late in life. It is not [...]
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Bipolar Disorder Court agrees bipolar disorder is physical and not just mental
Initially, Jane Fitts had been paid disability benefits because her bipolar condition prevented her from working. After 24 months of receiving disability payments they suddenly stopped. The reason given is that the insurance company considered the bipolar disorder a ‘mental illness’ and as such she is no longer entitled to disability benefits. Fitts sued. The [...]
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