Bipolar Depression

• What is the difference Between Depression and Bipolar Depression? If someone experiences a pattern of depressive symptoms, we call it Depression; if these same symptoms recur throughout your life, we call that recurrent depression.

• Antidepressants don't help bipolar depression The swings in mood from depression to mania that afflict people with bipolar disorder can be tempered with drugs such as lithium, but adding an antidepressant drug to ease the depression component is not helpful, new research suggests.

• An Anthropological Perspective on Depression and Bipolar Disorder After reading anthropologist Meredith Small’s book, I thought perhaps she would reject our current Western model for treating mental illnesses such as depression and bipolar disorder.

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