
Perhaps the toughest thing to accept about having Bipolar Disorder is that the treatment is going to be a lifetime affair. Almost everyone who has had one manic episode is destined to have additional manic and depressive episodes and prevention of future episodes is at least important as ...

In BipolarĀ Disorder, both the ups and the downs are extreme and disabling. The illness almost always begin sometime between puberty and age thirty-five and continues for life. Very rarely, the first episode begins in childhood almost always these early onsets occur in someone who has a strong ...

Bipolar (Maniac) Depression and Hypomania Bipolar depression is a disorder characterized by periods of major depression alternating with periods of elevated mood. If the elevated mood is relatively mild and lasts for four days or less, it is referred to as hypomania. Mania is longer and more ...