Coming to Terms with Adolescent Bipolar Disease
Depending on who you talk to, some terminologies people use to call bipolar by are bipolar disease, bipolar illness, bipolar disorder, bipolar symptoms and medical condition or morbidity.
What is disease in General?
The meaning of a disease according the English Dictionary, A pathological or medical condition of mind or body, A disease which is infectious has the presence of pathogenic microbial agents, such as viruses, bacteria, fungi, prions which are a known abnormal protein protozoa and multicellular parasites. Not considered a disease if an infection does not cause a clinicall impairment of normal functioning. Of all forms of non infectious disease the most popular are cancer, disease caused by genes and heart disease.
To be Clinically Impaired
One of the most obvious signs and growing evidence of adolescents hit with bipolar disease, is they are mentally impaired, even during periods of symptom remission. Falling in the impairments category like Alzheimer dementia and schizophrenia bipolar disease is not physically severe.
Mentally Impaired
A big number of patients complain of neuropsychological problems (a psychological processes and overt behaviors linked to the brain). And it is not clear how common are adolescent who are mentally impaired by bipolar diseases. There is a possibility that neuropsychological impairments may be more widespread, because adolescent bipolar sufferers do not complain of cognitive or mental problems.
Time Frame
Is there a time frame for each episode to occur in a person with bipolar disease? Because all of us are different each person will experience bipolar symptoms differently. This bipolar disease can last from a few minutes to one whole year with some experiencing “normalcy”, which is a lack of problematic symptoms. It can go from manic to calm to depressive to calm again. For some it can be 2 days manic than 3 to 4 weeks all good calm and normal and 5 days depressing and 1 week of calm and normal again. Other Individuals can experience a transition from one episode to the next without a symptom-free period. Or others periods of double or mixed episodes in which symptoms of depression and mania are either present.
Tips to Adhere to
1 . Alcohol: because it can inflate bipolar you must take great care.
2. Promiscuity: Sexual thoughts to acting out can be high to very high especially when in the manic episode.
3. Medication: It is not easy for doctors to find the right combination of drugs ” do not be disheartened.
4. Suicidal: For some it is the only way out of the situation. Look for injuries especially cuttings on the body.
5. Forcing: Always be gentle with bipolar patients ” forcing them to do something they do not want can be catastrophic.
6. Clarity: The clearer the symptoms revealed to doctors the easier for them to diagnose.
Disheartening
Symptoms of bipolar can overlap for many mental health conditions. People with adolescent bipolar disease have to be amazingly strong because the darkness that sometimes wells up out of people struggling with bipolar illness can be overpowering. Hopes, dreams and love can be shattered just by watching the person you love melt away and replaced by a completely different person.
Finally
Bipolar disease can be controlled but cannot be cured. It is important that adolescents suffering from this bipolar disease and their families be surrounded by a good support network in those difficult times. Besides having a support group, medication must be taken at times allotted so the disease does not add stress to others and also break up existing strained relationships.