Ok, my MIL is 50 and recently has been experiencing Anxiety, Depression and I have always suppected a bipolar disorder…she has been in and out of the hospital. I am just the DIL so I don’t know all the facts but from what her kids have said is that she is depressed but now she is in the hospital again and one of her kids say that the doctor said she is bi-polar and the other kid says that she is not and that she is acting fine now…and my husband has no clue cause he hasn’t talked to the doc…so my question is, can a woman who is 50 and previously healthy develop a bipolar disorder? My husband said that his brother said no but I am a Psych major and I am pretty sure that in one of my classes we covered that ….anyway, also I have witnessed differences in her like one day we went over with the kids and she was calm and then all of the sudden she is on the floor crawling, jumping and running and chasing my son and I thought that was odd cause she has never acted like that before and

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Is it really bipolar disorder if the mood swings are triggered by events? Small things sometimes make me really depressed. Like, no one was talking to me or including me in the conversation. I felt like I wanted to die for the next few days.

Is this probably bipolar disorder or just over-reacting or what?

By the way, I have manic mood swings, too, but those come a lot more randomly.

Also, I haven’t really been diagnosed with bipolar, but I would almost bet my life on it.

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Im 15 and about almost a year ago now, i was diagnosed with severe bipolar disorder. I’ve been on so many medications, its crazy. Well i finally decided on my own that i am willing to try and handle the severty of it on my own, but my doctor/phyciastrist says that im too unstable to go off of it. So i skipped my last appt. Do you think im wrong? Do you think he’s telling me not to go off of it because he wants my money?

My mom told me that i have to decide now and not 2 years from now when im getting a job and crap. Shes says then i will seem like a baby saying i want to go off my medicine.

Help!

oh yea, the severty of my bipolar disorder wasn’t too bad until i went on and off medication. now it got worse. but it seems to be letting up some. i’ll just say, im one of those people who you meet and right away go, are you bipolar? yea. its bad. But i seriously feel like i can do it without the medicine. Please help.

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bipolar disorder and depressions runs in my family. i have aunts, uncles, grandparents and cousins with it. even both of my parents do. i think i may be bipolar but my mom won’t take me seriously when i try to talk to her about it, she thinks im just crazy. i’m only 14 so i don’t know what to do. your probably thinking that oh, she is 14 she is just having problems with mood swings because of things going on in her life and hormones and stuff. but since it runs in my family and i have almost all of the symptoms i am really concerned about this. im not sure what i shuld do. does anyone have any suggestions?

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If you are bipolar and you do nothing about it (except try to hide it), will it make is worse? Is there any affects to not treating a bipolar disorder?

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My wife was diagnosed with manic/bipolar disorder six years ago and we are still struggling to find all aspects of stability. It is finally taking a severe emotional toll on me and I worry that I will spend the rest of my life as more of a caregiver than a spouse. Our marriage is in trouble.

In working to help her deal and live with mental illness, I worry that I have not found adequate coping skills to help me deal with the illness as well. Sometimes I feel like the spouse of someone with Alzheimer’s–watching helplessly from the outside as we become less and less recognizable to one another.

I empathize with those who suffer from mental illness. What of their spouses? What resources are available to us so that we also can retain a measure of mental health and help our loved ones find the balance they need?

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80% of children that is said to have ADHD, suffer from juvenile bipolar disorder.
all information gain through:
NIMH ( national institute for mental health)
U.C. Los Angles Psyc. dept
U.V. Psyc. Dept
U.of Pittsberg Psyc.dept.

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A friend of mine is on two different medicines for her bipolar disorder. Her medication dosage has increased constantly, and it has me wondering about some things about the medication.

This particular friend smokes cigarettes on a regular basis. In addition, she constantly drinks caffeine shots. I know that cigarettes are unhealthy on their own and that caffeine is a drug. However, I am wondering how either or both can affect her body and mind along with the mood stabilizing drugs.

Could the caffeine and/or cigarettes have anything to do with her medication dosage being increased?

Thank you

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Bipolar Disorder is the state of changing the state of behaviour very rapidly. The change may happen from happy to brutal anger, hilarious to very quiet, changing in mood.

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How to identify the bipolar disorder types? Did all the have the same symptoms or it varies?

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I’m having a nightmare finding a set of meds that sucessfully treat my bipolar disorder, does anyone have any experience/advice on this? I suffer predominately with depression and rapid cycling.

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Does it really exist one?
I mean, I know that the bipolar disorder have mood changes very often and that clinical depression is more like staying like that most of the time, but isn’t kind of the same after the clinical depressed has gotten trough it?
Thanks

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I have to write a paper on how ridiculous it is that children are suddenly being diagnosed with bipolar disorder and about how all celebrities that are out of control suddenly have "bipolar disorder." I can’t find any sites that speak out against these things. Can you find any?

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I am contemplating a hysterectomy for endometriosis, but I am also bipolar. I have heard from some that the hysterectomy improved their bipolar disorder, and from some that it worsened it. I am looking to hear of any other personal accounts of bipolar women that have had a hysterectomy. Thank you!

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Like could there be possibly nothing wrong or if 2-3 doctors diagnose you for bipolar disorder after running their tests and evaluation, is it too likely it really is bipolar disorder or there a chance its nothing?

And lets say the bipolar disorder is misdiagnosed, there is likely a chance its something as serious right? Like theres no possible way its really nothing right?

How do I deal with being bipolar, maybe im in denial….

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