A healthy mind in a healthy body is the perfect combination to lead a perfectly healthy life. However, not everyone is lucky enough to enjoy this flawless combination of health and fitness. Many people have illnesses they do not even know of but it is nevertheless eating away at their very being and will show up later in life. One such illness is ‘bipolar disease’.
What Is Bipolar Disorder?
Bipolar disorder or bipolar disease is a disorder of the brain. This psychological disease is classified into two classes, mania and depression. This is also why bipolar disease is also called manic depression.
Bipolar disorder affects the part of the brain that controls human emotion and mood. The disease is believed to be more wide spread than statistics show with more people having the disease but have not had it diagnosed as yet. Because this disease effects a persons moods and emotions in varying degrees it has to potential of disrupting the normal life of the patient as well as the people around him or her.
People with bipolar disease do not ever have complete control of their emotions and moods. An attack of this disease will vary from manic to depressive episodes that can last for varying periods of time. The attach can be so severe that it can disable the person to such an extent that carrying out of simple daily task such as bathing can be a daunting process.
The manic episodes of bipolar disorders will induce a feeling of excessive euphoria that can last a long time. The person will experience extra levels of energy, generally cheerful and will not feel the need to sleep. In addition to this the patient will experience an irregular though process with ideas and thoughts racing and jumping from on to another, then a general feeling of confusion sets in. A person suffering with bipolar disease will not be able to make up their mind and focus on a solution for a problem.
These people will be extremely optimistic, living on hope, so to speak. They will also be very irritable and lack concentration and they will never be able to admit that there is something wrong with them. All the above symptoms are indicators of Manic disorders.
Then there are the depressive symptoms of a bipolar disorder. Patients of bipolar disease will many times experience periods of depression. This period will see the patient passing through periods of sadness, and will be pessimistic to the highest degree, like nothing will ever work in their life. They will also not show any indication of doing any physical or mental activity during a bout of depressive bipolar disorder. The worst part of this disorder is that the patient will constantly think and talk about suicide and dying. Patients of bipolar disorder have been known to commit suicide on a number of occasions so additional care must be taken of them.
The sad part of bipolar disorder is that there is no known cure of this very serious disease, however, there are effective treatments available that can control this disorder and expert medical help must be sought at the earliest indication of bipolar disease.
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