A Bipolar Movement Towards a Healthier Lifestyle

A Bipolar Movement Towards a Healthier Lifestyle

Introduction

* Biopolar disorders effect people’s ability to communicate in their every day lives.

2. What is bipolar disorder?

a. Bipolar disorder is a mental disorder characterized by extreme shifts in mood, as well as fluctuations in energy and activity levels. During these abnormal shifts, the patient commonly finds it difficult to complete everyday tasks. (medical news today)

b. Mania - this is the period of euphoria, restlessness, energy, recklessness, and much talking.

The patient may go on emotional and mental sprees. It is during this period that the patient is most likely to engage in risky behaviors, including risky sex.

c. Depression - this is the opposite mood extreme of mania. The patient feels sad, may cry a lot, has a sense of being worthless, energy levels are extremely low, there is loss of pleasure, and sleep problems.

3. It is most common for someone with bipolar disorder to be treated with medication by a physiologist in order to control the levels of that persons mood.

4. Even though these moods can be described as a manic high, or a depressed low, a lot of brilliant things have been done by bipolar people.

5. The moods can trigger great ideas, productive thinking, more than the average person could do.

6. Medication hides, and masks these abilities, making it hard for people that are bipolar to communicate through the art or music, etc.

7. There are other ways to treat bipolar disorder , other than medication, treatment I feel that would help these people learn to control their emotions and let their abilities show and reduce all the health risks of long term drug use.

Effects of Prescription drugs long term

1. A common drug used to treat bipolar disorder is Lithium. The side affects of this drug are:

• tremors

• muscle spasms

• involuntary movements

• dry mouth and/or sore throat

• weight gain

• increased glucose and lipid...