Understanding Adolescent Bipolar Disease

by Ken P Doyle

Some terminologies used by people to call bipolar are a medical condition or morbidity, bipolar disease, bipolar illness, bipolar disorder and bipolar symptoms.

Disease what is?
The meaning of a disease according the English Dictionary, A pathological or medical condition of mind or body, A disease which is infectious has the presence of pathogenic microbial agents, such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, prions which are a known abnormal protein protozoa and multicellular parasites. Not considered a disease if an infection does not cause a clinicall impairment of normal functioning. Of all forms of non infectious disease the most popular are cancer, disease caused by genes and heart disease.

 Clinically Impaired

When adolescents are hit with bipolar disease, one of the most obvious signs and growing evidence is that individuals have mental impairments, even during periods of symptom remission. Bipolar disease falls in the impairments category like Alzheimer dementia and schizophrenia, but they are not as severe.

Mental Impairment

It is unclear how common cognitive impairment among adolescent bipolar diseases occurs. A big number of patients complain of neuropsychological problems (a psychological processes and overt behaviors linked to the brain). Because adolescent bipolar sufferers do not complain of cognitive or mental problems, there is a possibility that neuropsychological impairments may be more widespread than our experience suggests.

Time for Bipolar Episodes

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.

Tips to Adhere to

1 . Alcohol: because it can inflate bipolar you must take great care.

2. Promiscuity: Sexual libido especially when in the manic episode can be high to very high.

3. Medication: finding the right combination of drugs can be difficult for doctors.

4. Suicidal: For some it is the only way out of the situation. Look for injuries especially cuttings on the body.

5. Forcing: Do not force patients to do something they do not want. You may find yourself facing a tiger.

6. Clarity: be really clear with your doctor about what symptoms are bothering you for them to address and diagnose it properly.

Really Sad

For many mental health conditions, symptoms of bipolar can overlap. A lot of people with adolescent bipolar disease have to be amazingly strong. The darkness that sometimes wells up out of people struggling with bipolar illness can be incredible. But even more difficult is the sharing of hopes, dreams and love with someone like this and then watching the person you love melt away and replaced by a completely different stranger.

Finally

Bipolar disease can be controlled but cannot be cured. It is important that adolescents suffering from this bipolar disease and their families be surrounded by a good support network in those difficult times. Besides having a support group, medication must be taken at times allotted so the disease does not add stress to others and also break up existing strained relationships.

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