BIPOLAR DISORDER AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH DEPRESSION

BIPOLAR DISORDER – ITS ASSOCIATION WITH DEPRESSION

Bipolar disorder formally called as manic depression. It is a mental health condition that is strongly associated with strong mood swings, that include emotionally high ( mania or hypomania ) and low (depression ) mood swings. When a person strikes with high mood swings he feels himself euphoric, full of energy, a great interest in all life activities and wants to live a lively life. But when a person come by low mood swings he looses his interest in all life matters, looses pleasure, looses all his energy and feels himself a lazy person.

Types of bipolar disorders

There are four types of bipolar disorders that are explained below

Bipolar disorder-1

In this type 1 disorder a person may face one manic episode proceeded by hypomanic or major depressive episode. In many cases it may trigger a break from reality .

Bipolar disorder-2

In this type 2 disease a person faces one major depressive and at least one hypomanic episode but never has manic episode.

Cyclothymic disorder

You’ve had at least two years or one year in childhood or teenager of many periods of hypomania. It may also followed by the symptoms and periods of depression, though less severe than the major depression.

Others

Bipolar and depression related disorders induced by certain drugs or alcohols or due to a mild condition. Such as Cushing’s disease, multiple sclerosis or stroke.

Causes

In bipolar disorder a patient faces a POLES of mood. Some time a patient has a good mood and some times patient has a bad mood. Some of the basic causes of bipolar disease are as follows :

Blood relative sufferer : if a patient has a sister, brother, mother or father a patient of bipolar disease, then it is more likely to develop bipolar disease.

Prolonged high stress or depression level.

Prolonged usage of drugs, alcohol and stuff like that.

Biological differences

Basic symptoms of bipolar disorder

Abnormality upbeat, jumpy or weird

High level energy causes increased activity, energy or agitation

Euphoria : exaggerated sense of well being or high self confidence

Decreased need for sleep

Unusual talkativeness

Racing thoughts

Distractibility

Poor decision making : going buying sprees, taking sexual risks or making foolish experiments

Suicidal thoughts

Prey of low self esteem

Treatment

Bipolar disorder is a lifetime. It cannot be cured. But we can lessen its intensity. The one of the best treatment is psychopathy, talking and taking proper sessions with a psychologist may help in reducing its intensity. Most of the people use one mood stabilizing drug or an antipsychotic, benzodiazepine, or antidepressant.

How bipolar disease is associated with depression?

When a person is facing low mood swings he looses his interest in daily life activities, ultimately when he is unable to do any thing on time he takes stress and long time stress cause him to fall in depression.

Can a bipolar disease is one of the major cause in suicidal attempt?

Yes, we can say sometimes bipolar disease can become a cause of suicide. When a person feels low or we can say very low mood swings, he can think about suicide and if he remains in that low mood for a quite long time it may cause him to attempt suicide.

Bipolar disease and other illness

We can say that bipolar disease is a mother of other disorders too. Like bipolar disorder causes following disorders

anxiety

stress

depression

thyroid disorders

margarine

headaches

heart diseases

obesity

and other physical disorders