Childhood Mental Health: Bipolar Depression
Description
Although rare in young children, bipolar disorder , or manic-depressive illness , can appear in both children and adolescents.
Bipolar Depression: A form of depressive illness where the person experiences periods of both abnormally high and abnormally low moods.
Bipolar Depression
Bipolar Disorder
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Bipolar depression - People with bipolar disorder (manic depression) have periods of mania (feeling excessively elated, impulsive, irritable, or irrational) or hypomania (a milder form of mania), ...
Bipolar depression is a complex and difficult-to-treat condition that remains seriously understudied.[30] Antidepressants can provide short-term benefit but may increase the risk of mania and rapid cycling over the long-term.
Bipolar depression typically lasts 2 - 3 months -- not as long as in major depression (although left untreated some bipolar disorder episodes can last 6 - 12 months or longer).
In bipolar depression, otherwise known as manic depression, the depressive symptoms alternate with mania - where high moods, excitement and elation give sufferers excess energy, rapid speech, less need for sleep and wild, racing thoughts and impulses.
The same complications seen in unipolar depression may be present in bipolar depression. The most serious complication is suicide.
However, other forms of depression exist, such as bipolar depression (manic-depression) which is characterized by swings over time between depressive, and manic or mixed episodes.
Phosphatidylcholine has also been show to be somewhat helpful in the treatment of bipolar depression. Those suffering from bipolar depression have shown some improvement when given phosphatidylcholine supplements.
An alternate type is bipolar depression (manic depression), in which a person varies between episodes of depression and mania (over-excitedness). (See "Manic Depression.").
Depression is twice as common in women as in men.
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Meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials demonstrate a statistically significant benefit in unipolar and bipolar depression (p=.02).
It has been used in major depression, dysthymia, bipolar depression, attention-deficit disorders, agoraphobia, and panic disorders.
It has less sedative effect than some other members of this therapeutic group.
Sachs GS, et al. (2000). The treatment of bipolar depression. Bipolar Disorders, 2(3, Part 2): 256-260.
Bowden CL (2001). Novel treatments for bipolar disorder. Expert Opinion on Investigational Drugs, 10(4): 661-671.
Certain people with depressive disorder, especially bipolar depression (manic depression), seem to have an inherited vulnerability to this condition.
4. Osher Y, Bersudsky Y, Belmaker RH. Omega-3 eicosapentaenoic acid in bipolar depression: report of a small open-label study. J Clin Psychiatry 2005;66:726-9.
Polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acid deficiency may contribute to depressive symptoms in alcoholism, multiple sclerosis, postpartum depression and bipolar depression.
Dysthymia is yet another chronic type of depression that the thyroid could influence. This type differs from major depression and bipolar depression in the fact that it does not totally disable a person from functioning normally.
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Are There Any Natural Or Homeopathic Remedies That Can Help With Schizoaffective Disorder And Bipolar?
Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are some of the... oil to improve symptoms of depression .
There is now a ready-made combination medicine approved for use in bipolar depression, Symbyax, which has the antipsychotic, olanzapine, along with the antidepressant, fluoxetine (Prozac), both in one capsule.
The depression that is associated with bipolar disorder is often referred to as bipolar depression. When depression is not associated with bipolar disorder, it is called unipolar depression.
disease characterized by profound feelings of sadness, discouragement, and worth-lessness unexplained by life's events. Depression is often recurring and interrupted by feelings of extreme euphoria, a condition referred to as bipolar depression or ...
 See also: Depression, Symptom, Manic, Bipolar disorder, D Depression
  
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