What Is Mania
Health Encyclopedia: Bipolar Disorder Treatment
Treatment
Bipolar disorder is a recurrent disease that can be unpredictable. The major goals of treatment are to:
- Treat and reduce the severity of acute episodes of mania or depression when they occur
- Reduce the frequency of episodes
- Avoid cycling from one phase to another
- Help the patient function as best as possible between episodes
The doctor will first try to determine what may have triggered the attack and identify any accompanying medical or emotional problems that might interfere with or compli...
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Expert & Community Posts
On the Road in Edinburgh, Part III
By John McManamy , Health Expert...clinic with manic symptoms. You give him an anti-mania med to bring the mania down, right? Then... Read more »
The Bipolar Spectrum
By John McManamy , Health Expert...depression. They just don't happen to cycle up into mania or hypomania. There is strong evidence... Read more »
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Depression Issues: What is depression?
...depression symptoms fall between major and dysthymic depression Bipolar disorder (manic depression) - full mania and major depression (I) or hypomania and major depression (II) Cyclothymic... Read more »The Top 10 Myths About Bipolar Disorder
...necessarily. Most people with bipolar disorder are depressed far more often than they are manic. Often, the manias are so subtle that they are overlooked by both patient and psychiatrist,... Read more »Depression Issues: What are the symptoms of depression?
...and cyclothymic depression symptoms include the above during the depression phase alternating with mania symptoms of high energy, euphoria, distractability, poor judgment, and sleeplessness. Some... Read more »Bipolar Depression: What is bipolar disorder?
...single year, while others will experience only one or two episodes in a lifetime. Depression and mania are considered to be the polar opposites of human emotion. The term "bipolar" describes the... Read more »Depression Issues: How is depression treated?
...the anticonvulsants valproate (trade name Depakote) and carbamazepine (trade name Tegretol) stabilize mania and depression in many people. Clozapine (trade name Clozaril) may stabilize mood in... Read more »Medications
...mental/mood conditions (schizophrenia, bipolar mania). It works by helping to restore the ... Read more »
This medication is used to treat manic-depressive disorder (bipolar disorder). It works to... Read more »
This medication is used to treat manic-depressive disorder (bipolar disorder). It works to... Read more »
This medication is used to treat manic-depressive disorder (bipolar disorder). It works to... Read more »
This medication is used to treat manic-depressive disorder (bipolar disorder). It works to... Read more »
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