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Alex’s Battle With Bipolar Disorder
By: Sharon Bell
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Sharon Bell is an avid health and fitness enthusiast and published author. Many of her insightful articles can be found at the premiere online news magazine http://www.healthnfitnesszone.com.
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Everywhere she went, Alex Fontaine was the life of the party. There was never a dull moment with her around. But between periods of silliness, she experienced bouts of deep depression. As she grew older and found it difficult to settle down and hold a job, she knew something was wrong. She later learned she has bipolar disorder.
“From an early age, my behavior was pretty extreme. I was sent to a convent school to be educated by nuns, but I didn’t take kindly to the strict regime and soon became the class clown. I once changed the church hymn numbers to 666, put a dunce’s cap on the head of a statue of St Joseph and stole the altar wine,” she told Becky Shaves of the Daily Mail, Britain’s second biggest-selling daily newspaper.
“Like all bipolar people, I’d be very up and then, a few weeks later, find myself so depressed and anxious that I couldn’t get out of bed. When the mania starts, you feel like a child on Christmas morning – multiplied by five. You have endless energy, wonderful enthusiasm and huge confidence in yourself. But it can’t last – the brain’s batteries become exhausted and you then tip into a profound low,” she added.
Bipolar disorder is a common mental illness that affects 222 million people worldwide or between three and four percent of the world’s adult population. This mood disorder that is also known as manic depression or manic-depressive illness affects both men and women and is the sixth leading cause of disabilities worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.
Patients with bipolar disorder have alternating episodes of emotional highs (mania) and lows (depression). Attacks can be mild or severe and the mood swings can lasts for weeks or months, affecting the lives of the patient’s family and friends.
Mania is generally characterized by a distinct period of an elevated, expansive or irritable mood state. Patients usually experience an increase in energy and a decreased need for sleep. Speech may be pressured with racing thoughts. Attention span is low and a person in a manic state may be easily distracted.
In the depressive phase, the patient may experience sadness, hopelessness, suicidal thoughts, guilt, fatigue, loss of interest in daily activities, irritability, and chronic pain without a known cause.
“Sometimes, severe episodes of mania or depression include symptoms of psychosis (or psychotic symptoms). Common psychotic symptoms are hallucinations (hearing, seeing, or otherwise sensing the presence of things not actually there) and delusions (false, strongly held beliefs not influenced by logical reasoning or explained by a person’s usual cultural concepts),” according to the US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
The goods news is that the condition can be treated with the right medicines. These “mood stabilizers” can help patients control the disease if they are taken religiously. This is what happened to Fontaine who at 39 is now a successful businesswoman in London.
“I know I’ll always be bipolar, but the positive side of my disorder is that I lead a rich and interesting existence. I meet lots of new people, travel often and am open to all sorts of experiences. No one could accuse me of being boring or too safe. Today, I’ve accepted who I am and love my life. I hope that for others in my situation, I am proof that a diagnosis of bipolar disorder need not be the end of the world,” she said.
If you have any of the above symptoms, seek medical help. To enhance your memory and support healthy brain function, take Neurovar. For more information on this powerful supplement, go to http://www.neurovar.com/.
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