Depending on who you talk to, some terminologies people use to call bipolar by are bipolar disease, bipolar illness, bipolar disorder, bipolar symptoms and medical condition or morbidity.
What is a Disease?
A disease is A pathological or medical condition of mind or body, according to the English Dictionary. An Infectious disease is the presence of pathogenic microbial agents, such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multicellular parasites and prions which are a known abnormal protein. If an infection does not cause a clinically impairment of normal functioning, it is not considered a disease. The more popular forms of disease which are non-infectious are cancer, heart disease and diseases caused by genes.
Clinically Impaired
Even during periods of symptom remission, one of the most obvious signs and growing evidence of adolescents hit with bipolar disease is the mental impairments. Not as severe Bipolar disease falls in the impairments category like Alzheimer dementia and schizophrenia.
Mental Impairment
A big number of patients complain of neuropsychological problems (a psychological processes and overt behaviors linked to the brain). And it is not clear how common are adolescent who are mentally impaired by bipolar diseases. There is a possibility that neuropsychological impairments may be more widespread, because adolescent bipolar sufferers do not complain of cognitive or mental problems.
Time Frame
There is no time frame for each episode of bipolar. Each person will experience this ongoing illness differently which can go from manic to calm to depressive to calm again. For some it can be 2 days manic than 3 to 4 weeks all good calm and normal and 5 days depressing and 1 week of calm and normal again. Other Individuals can experience periods of double or mixed episodes in which symptoms of depression and mania are either present, or a person may transit from one episode to the next without a symptom-free period. This bipolar disease can last from a few minutes to one whole year with some experiencing "normalcy", which is a lack of problematic symptoms.
Important Guidelines
1.Alcohol: Take extra precaution with liquor or drugs.
2. Promiscuity: high to very high sexual libido especially when in the manic episode.
3. Medication: It is not easy for doctors to find the right combination of drugs " do not be disheartened.
4. Suicidal: For some it is the only way out of the situation. Look for injuries especially cuttings on the body.
5. Forcing: Always be gentle with bipolar patients " forcing them to do something they do not want can be catastrophic.
6. Clarity: The clearer the symptoms revealed to doctors the easier for them to diagnose.
Disheartening
A lot of people with adolescent bipolar disease have to be amazingly strong because many mental health conditions can overlap. The darkness that sometimes wells up out of people struggling with bipolar illness can be a big challenge. For families with bipolar children their hopes, dreams and love with someone like this can be really sad. And then watching the person you love melt away and replaced by a completely different stranger can be disheartening.
Conclusion
Bipolar can be controlled successfully and those suffering from the disease and their families must have excess to a support network in those difficult times. Most of the time if medication is taken as prescribed patients can live a normal life without adding stress to families or a partner.
What is a Disease?
A disease is A pathological or medical condition of mind or body, according to the English Dictionary. An Infectious disease is the presence of pathogenic microbial agents, such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multicellular parasites and prions which are a known abnormal protein. If an infection does not cause a clinically impairment of normal functioning, it is not considered a disease. The more popular forms of disease which are non-infectious are cancer, heart disease and diseases caused by genes.
Clinically Impaired
Even during periods of symptom remission, one of the most obvious signs and growing evidence of adolescents hit with bipolar disease is the mental impairments. Not as severe Bipolar disease falls in the impairments category like Alzheimer dementia and schizophrenia.
Mental Impairment
A big number of patients complain of neuropsychological problems (a psychological processes and overt behaviors linked to the brain). And it is not clear how common are adolescent who are mentally impaired by bipolar diseases. There is a possibility that neuropsychological impairments may be more widespread, because adolescent bipolar sufferers do not complain of cognitive or mental problems.
Time Frame
There is no time frame for each episode of bipolar. Each person will experience this ongoing illness differently which can go from manic to calm to depressive to calm again. For some it can be 2 days manic than 3 to 4 weeks all good calm and normal and 5 days depressing and 1 week of calm and normal again. Other Individuals can experience periods of double or mixed episodes in which symptoms of depression and mania are either present, or a person may transit from one episode to the next without a symptom-free period. This bipolar disease can last from a few minutes to one whole year with some experiencing "normalcy", which is a lack of problematic symptoms.
Important Guidelines
1.Alcohol: Take extra precaution with liquor or drugs.
2. Promiscuity: high to very high sexual libido especially when in the manic episode.
3. Medication: It is not easy for doctors to find the right combination of drugs " do not be disheartened.
4. Suicidal: For some it is the only way out of the situation. Look for injuries especially cuttings on the body.
5. Forcing: Always be gentle with bipolar patients " forcing them to do something they do not want can be catastrophic.
6. Clarity: The clearer the symptoms revealed to doctors the easier for them to diagnose.
Disheartening
A lot of people with adolescent bipolar disease have to be amazingly strong because many mental health conditions can overlap. The darkness that sometimes wells up out of people struggling with bipolar illness can be a big challenge. For families with bipolar children their hopes, dreams and love with someone like this can be really sad. And then watching the person you love melt away and replaced by a completely different stranger can be disheartening.
Conclusion
Bipolar can be controlled successfully and those suffering from the disease and their families must have excess to a support network in those difficult times. Most of the time if medication is taken as prescribed patients can live a normal life without adding stress to families or a partner.
About the Author:
Ken P Doyle is an adviser for bipolar disorder and has a bountiful of knowledge in the field on mental illness. As an adviser he is willing to share some available information and findings on adolescent bipolar and bipolar disease.
