Is manic depression genetic/inherited? Manic depression, also known as bipolar disorder, is a mood disorder that causes sufferers to experience extreme mood swings from severe depression through to manic highs. Manic depression is a relatively common illness that typically affects 1% of the adult population. Although most people suffer from mood swings from time to [...] Read more »
Coping with bipolar disorder
Although a bipolar disorder is a very serious condition, coping with bipolar disorder is something you can achieve as long as you have a proper treatment plan. Dealing with symptoms like mania, hypomania and depression seems like a very hard task but with the right support you are very well able to live a ‘normal [...] Read more »
Bipolar disorder with psychotic features
In other posts I have already explained what a bipolar disorder is and what different subtypes there are. Sometimes we will see a bipolar disorder with psychotic features. The term psychosis is not always well explained and I will do my best to give a good explanation what it is and how it effect daily [...] Read more »
Atypical bipolar disorder
What is an atypical bipolar disorder? It is actually not a term that is used very often. In psychology language it is referred to a diagnosis bipolar disorder nos. Nos stands for ‘not otherwise specified and is used as a diagnosis when the symptoms of a person don’t fit any other diagnosis in the same [...] Read more »
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