文档介绍:Depression Bipolar Disorder Treatment Living with Depression or Bipolar Disorder
It’s Not Just in Your More Than A Mood Swing Sometimes it’s hard to ask As with other chronic illnesses such as diabetes, heart
Head for help. If you or some- disease or asthma, people with mood disorders should
Bipolar disorder is a treatable medical illness marked by
one you know has a mood see themselves as managers of their illness. Depression
Everyone, at various times extreme changes in mood, thought, energy and behavior.
disorder, you may be feel- and bipolar disorder are treatable, but they are not
in life, feels sad. This is It is also known as manic depression because a person’s
ing especially vulnerable, yet curable. For many people, depression and bipolar
normal. Sometimes sadness mood can alternate between mania and depression.
and talking to someone disorder are chronic illnesses. If severe depressive and/or
comes from things that happen in your life: you move to This change in mood or “mood swing” can last for hours,
about it may be the last manic episodes reappear at some point in your life, don’t
a different city and leave behind friends, you lose your job days, weeks or even months.
thing you want to do. But panic. Your experience with previous episodes puts
or a loved one dies. But what’s the difference between
finding the right treatment you one