Bipolar disorder is not easy to detect when it starts. Symptoms may seem like different problems, are not recognized as part of a larger problem. Bipolar disorder is a serious mental illness. It can lead to dramatic mood swings from overly “high” or irritable, and sad and hopeless, and then back again, often with periods [...]

Bipolar disorder is a mental illness that afflicts you such that your moods could swing extremely rapidly between extreme mania and deep depression. Amongst a host of other things, it makes it difficult for you to relate with people around you, and vice versa. I mean, picture just how bad things would be if people [...]

Bipolar Disorder is a psychiatric condition defined as recurrent episodes of significant disturbance in mood. These disturbances can occur on a spectrum that ranges from debilitating depression to unbridled mania. Individuals suffering from bipolar disorder typically experience fluid states of mania, hypomania or what is referred to as a mixed state in conjunction with depressive [...]

Researchers are optimistic that recent discoveries have demonstrated that there could possibly be link between genetics and the development of bipolar disorder among children. This could be a giant discovery that could drastically change the way we look at, think of, and treat this disorder that affects millions of children around the world. Although way [...]

Women who have been diagnosed with bipolar disorder are often hesitant to have children. Not only is there fear of transferring the disorder on to the child, there is a concern about mom being off her meds during pregnancy%LLINK1% is a mood disorder which causes it”s victims to suffer from devastating depression and horrible mania. [...]

A person with bipolar disorder experiences the best and worst of both worlds. Like two-face from Batman. It can be a psychological disorder that proceeds without warning. Imagine being confronted by a person with the happiest personality and then suddenly, without any reason, he diminishes to a lower aura and starts to cry. The extremes [...]

Q. Can a child be diagnosed with bipolar disorder? Most of what I’ve read says bipolar disorder develops in adults. A. Although bipolar disorder usually affects adults, there is substantial evidence that it also can occur in children. Making a diagnosis of bipolar disorder in children may be more difficult because its symptoms may be [...]