Bipolar Disorder Signs

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Nov 022010
 

About one person in 4 in the United States suffers from a diagnosable mental disorder per year. With millions of people being diagnosed, the term “mental disorder” should prompt us to seek out a greater understanding of such disorders. One mental disorder that affects 5.7 million American adults per year is Bipolar Disorder. What is Bipolar Disorder? More importantly, are there any signs to indicate professional advice may be needed?

Bipolar I Disorder is also known as manic-depressive disorder. It is also referred to as bipolar affective order or manic depression. It is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a category of mood disorders defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated energy levels, cognition, and mood with or without one or more depressive episodes.

Since no two persons are exactly alike, symptoms will vary from person to person. However, some factors and symptoms of Bipolar Disorder are as follows:

Manic Episode- Mania is one of the chief characteristics classifying the disorder. A manic episode may include elevated energy levels, racing thoughts, irritable mood, decrease need for sleep, and increased sexual drive. Behavior in this episode may include indulgent shopping sprees, grandiose feelings accompanied by delusional thoughts. Feelings of extreme rage or anxiety may also occur. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), a person would have to reach a state of elevated irritability, as well as other symptoms, for one week for a mania diagnosis.

Depressive Episode- Bipolar signs during this episode may include persistent feelings of anxiety, anger, lack of appetite, inability to enjoy common activities, disturbed sleeping patterns, substance abuse, decreased sexual activity, suicidal thoughts, and overall lack of motivation and fatigue. This episode should never be confused with occasional sadness. Severe episodes may become psychotic, known as bipolar depression with psychotic features.

Hypomanic Episode- This episode is characterized by a mild to moderate level of mania without delusions or hallucinations. Some people may have increased creativity or increased irritability. Unless this episode is accompanied by a depressive counterpart, it could appear that the person is just very happy.

Mixed Affective Episode- Both episodes of mania and clinical depression occur simultaneously.

Factor- Onset of full symptoms begins in late adolescence or young adulthood. Genetics and family history may be contributing factors.

It is important to note that the term “Bipolar” is a fairly recent term referring to the cycling between the manic episode and the depressive episodes. Both (“bi”) episodes must be present in the diagnosis of a Bipolar Disorder.

The above list of Bipolar signs is not comprehensive. Only a medical professional can make a correct medical diagnosis along with appropriate treatment. As such, professionals will base their diagnosis on their experience and training as related to bipolar disorders and their personal observations.

Seek medical advice from a professional if you have any Bipolar Disorder signs or other symptoms you are not sure about. There is promising hope on the horizon for bipolar disorders. Research findings in genetics and neuroscience are providing new insights and approaches for more effectiveness in the intervention and treatment of all mental disorders. In today’s world there is no reason an individual with a bipolar disorder can not have a happy and enriched life.

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Schizophrenia Causes Symptoms Information With Treatment

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Nov 022010
 

Schizophrenia begins in late adolescence or early adulthood. People who have schizophrenia may have unusual beliefs, called delusions. Schizophrenia is believed to result from a combination of environmental and genetic factors. A child who has one parent with schizophrenia. Implicates abnormalities in both the brain’s structure and biochemical activities. Sometimes, the use of street drugs seems to bring on schizophrenia. These include ecstasy (E), LSD (acid), amphetamines (speed) and crack. Environmental factors, such as a viral infection, poor social interactions or highly stressful situations, may trigger schizophrenia in people who have inherited a tendency to develop the disorder. Schizophrenia more often surfaces when the body is undergoing hormonal and physical changes Schizophrenia is known to run in families. Thus, the risk of illness in an identical twin of a person with schizophrenia is 40-50%. A child of a parent suffering from schizophrenia has a 10% chance of developing the illness. The risk of schizophrenia in the general population is about 1%. Abnormal brain structure and function in people with schizophrenia. However, this type of abnormality doesn’t happen in all schizophrenics and can occur in people without the disease. The effectiveness of schizophrenia treatment is often assessed using standardized methods, one of the most common being the positive and negative syndrome scale (PANSS).

Causes of Schizophrenia

Common Causes and Risk factors of Schizophrenia

Genetics factors.

Environmental factors.

Abnormal brain development

Infections

Birth complications

Head Injury.

Signs and Symptoms of Schizophrenia

Sign and Symptoms of Schizophrenia

Hallucinations.

Delusions.

Paranoia.

Lack of motivation and enjoyment.

Concentration

Treatment of Schizophrenia

Common Treatment of Schizophrenia

Treatment includes counselling, social support and rehabilitation.

Anti-psychotic medicines are available to treat the worst symptoms of the illness, such as hallucinations, but there is no “cure” at present.

Anti-psychotic drugs, though effective, are associated with a range of distressing side-effects which can result in constant twitching/fidgeting, writhing and disjointed movements. However, newer (‘Atypical’) anti-psychotic drugs are designed to offer control of symptoms and less of these disabling side-effects.

Support from family, friends and healthcare services is also a vital part of therapy

Schizophrenia – Ayurvedic Herbal Treatment

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Sep 032010
 

Schizophrenia is a severe brain disease which usually manifests in adolescence or early adulthood. It causes negative symptoms like lack of motivation, self-neglect and reduced emotion. It causes clear symptoms like hallucinations, delusions and disorganized thoughts and speech.

In Ayurveda, Schizophrenia is known as “Unmaad”. Most physicians treat this disease according to the presentation of symptoms. Patients who are wrathful or agitated are given “counter-irritant” treatment in the do of nasal drops. Vacha (Acorus calamus) in the powder or oil create, Shigru (Moringa oleifera) seed powder, Marich (Piper nigrum), Tagar (Valeriana wallichii), Yashtimadhu (Glycerrhiza glabra), Hingu (Ferula narthex) and Shunthi (Zinziber officinale) + Jaggery are some of the medicines frail, usually combined with “Puran Ghruta”.

After the patient is subdued, other medicines are started. These include Sarpagandha (Raulwofia serpentina), Jatamansi (Nardostachys jatamansi), Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) , Brahmi ( Bacopa monnieri), Ajwayan(Hyoscyamus niger) ), Raupya Bhasma, Suvarna Bhasma and Puran Ghruta. Different medicated ghrutas (ghee) are outmoded orally, such as Kalyanak Ghruta, Panchagavya Ghruta, Brahmi Ghruta and Jatamansi Ghruta. Some physicians advocate the spend of “Panchakarama” procedures like induced vomiting, induced purgation and medicated enemas.

Treatment also differs according to the predominance of the “dosha” alive to. For the predominance of “Vata” dosha, Brahmiprasha, Sarpagandha powder, Sameerpannag rasa, and Vatavidhvansa rasa are passe. For the predominance of “Pitta” dosha, Sutshekhar and Sarpagandha are given with Brahmi juice. Where “Kapha” dosha is predominant, medicines like Unmaadgajakesari and Bhootbhairav rasa are worn.

There is currently no cure for Schizophrenia, but many patients can be successfully managed with medications and professional counseling. Consistent, long-term treatment is famous to the successful management of Schizophrenia. Many patients stop medicines because of poor or intolerable side-effects of original medicines. Ayurvedic herbal medicines fetch positively on this aspect, since they can be mature long-term without any serious side-effects. Several herbal combinations are now available which can be conventional independently in patients with collected to moderate symptoms. For Schizophrenic patients with severe symptoms, the Ayurvedic medicines can be added to a current medicine as adjuvant therapy, so that the therapeutic carry out is optimized, without increasing the side-effect load.

Rehabilitation of patients is an famous aspect of treatment. Patients need to be kept busy, in accordance with their capacity and ability for work. The regular supervision of a caregiver, both at home and at the work-place, helps a lot.

How to ogle the Symptoms of Schizophrenia?

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Jul 302010
 

The symptoms of schizophrenia are classified in two groups: obvious and negative symptoms. The definite symptoms refer to those characters which arrive as a supplementary to the patient’s personality and consist out of disordered thinking and psychotic symptoms. The negative symptoms refer to those characters which recede due to schizophrenia, like loosing emotion and expression. These negative symptoms are the first to appear in a schizophrenic person.

Schizophrenia makes the affected people not to manifest any emotion any more; they do not relish the things that outmoded to give them satisfaction like going out with friends, going swimming, golfing or playing tennis. Because they have a lack of motion and expose dinky face expression they do not have many friends and do not create friends so easily.

They often have problems at school or at work because they can not focus any more, they have a lack of motivation and they process information with anguish.

Many people who spy these changes in stop persons mediate that this is due to other health problems, to depression or substance abuse and do not judge about schizophrenia.

The category of sure symptoms contains hallucinations meaning that the affected person might hear voices, might seek things which are not show, or might even smell something that is not there.

Some schizophrenic people might enjoy that they are sent by God and that they have a special mission which needs to be completed soon; others might reflect they are the US President and are not easy to convince that this is not legal.

These people are confused, they can not acknowledge properly to a examine, and they have a uncommon plot of speaking which makes them hardly understood by others. Sometimes they acknowledge questions with one word, like yes or no, and they are not sociable people, avoiding unique acquaintances and strangers.

They have a non-organized behavior, they are sometimes very nervous and agitated without a gracious reason and they have disorganized body movements like rocking in the chair support and forth for a long time.

They do not acquire care of themselves any more, they derive dirty but they do not seize a bath for weeks, they do not wash their clothes and leave their house unclean until it makes that place impossible to live in.

People reflect them mean and unique because they have tainted behaviors like smiling or laughing at a funeral, in an corrupt moment or without a specific reason. In some cases, more rarely jerking ogle movements can occur.

Schizophrenic symptoms appear depending on the type of schizophrenia a person has. In the case of paranoid schizophrenia, the patient might be constantly scared due to the fact that a scrape with interpreting the reality has occurred. Catatonic schizophrenic people stand in a unusual glum residence for a long time; the disorganized schizophrenic patients compose a language that nobody understands or even execute rhyming words continuously. A more rare make of schizophrenia is the Childhood schizophrenia which causes a lack of emotion, disorganized speech, and hallucinations.

Schizophrenia and Psychosis – 7 Differences Between Schizophrenia and Psychosis

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Jul 062010
 

People tend to confuse between Psychoses or what is also called a Psychotic Disorder, to Schizophrenia. In one word the schizophrenia is the disease or illness and the psychosis is the active manner of it. Here are 7 differences that will wait on you differentiate between psychosis and schizophrenia:

1) The active signs

When you suffer from psychosis, you have what is called active signs. Those signs are hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, hearing voices, imagining things and thoughts and so on. All of these are the active signs and reflects a psychotic disorder or psychosis. These active signs usually appear for about a maximum of 5% of your life.

2) The negative symptoms

When your psychosis is under control by anti psychotic medicines or other means, then you tend to suffer from post psychotic effects that are called the negative symptoms such as depression, lack of motivation, lack of vitality, fatigue, being closed in yourself and so on.

3) Self control

During your psychosis, your self control tends to be minimize or even not to be at all. The ability to distinguish between upright and sinful and to control your movements and reactions is very extreme, while during the schizophrenia negative symptoms your self control is as normal people.

4) Self awareness

When going through psychosis, your self awareness tends to be minimal or even not to be down to the point that you can not distinguish if you are in some kind of psychosis or not, while during the schizophrenia negative symptoms, your self awareness is as a normal person.

5) The reality distinction

When you suffer from psychosis, you usually can not differentiate between what happens for true to what is only in your mind as a delusion or hallucinations. The ability to sure between what is loyal and what is not, remains as a normal person when you suffer from the negative symptoms of the schizophrenia disorder.

6) The duration

Psychosis usually tend to halt for a short time between few days to few weeks, while the schizophrenia negative symptoms tend to pause in some level for your entire life.

7) The treatment

The best and usually the only treatment for psychosis are anti psychotic medicines, while treatment for the schizophrenia negative symptoms are more various and ranges from utilize, having a mate, having social life, having an occupation, sleeping well, keeping your hygiene, eating well and true, having a diet and so on.

How to observe the Symptoms of Schizophrenia?

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Mar 292010
 

The symptoms of schizophrenia are classified in two groups: certain and negative symptoms. The clear symptoms refer to those characters which arrive as a supplementary to the patient’s personality and consist out of disordered thinking and psychotic symptoms. The negative symptoms refer to those characters which proceed due to schizophrenia, like loosing emotion and expression. These negative symptoms are the first to appear in a schizophrenic person.

Schizophrenia makes the affected people not to manifest any emotion any more; they do not luxuriate in the things that frail to give them satisfaction like going out with friends, going swimming, golfing or playing tennis. Because they have a lack of motion and display limited face expression they do not have many friends and do not originate friends so easily.

They often have problems at school or at work because they can not focus any more, they have a lack of motivation and they process information with misfortune.

Many people who peruse these changes in end persons reflect that this is due to other health problems, to depression or substance abuse and do not consider about schizophrenia.

The category of clear symptoms contains hallucinations meaning that the affected person might hear voices, might gape things which are not exhibit, or might even smell something that is not there.

Some schizophrenic people might occupy that they are sent by God and that they have a special mission which needs to be completed soon; others might reflect they are the US President and are not easy to convince that this is not lawful.

These people are confused, they can not reply properly to a put a question to, and they have a unusual draw of speaking which makes them hardly understood by others. Sometimes they acknowledge questions with one word, like yes or no, and they are not sociable people, avoiding modern acquaintances and strangers.

They have a non-organized behavior, they are sometimes very nervous and agitated without a edifying reason and they have disorganized body movements like rocking in the chair attend and forth for a long time.

They do not prefer care of themselves any more, they come by dirty but they do not select a bath for weeks, they do not wash their clothes and leave their house unclean until it makes that station impossible to live in.

People assume them mean and curious because they have sinister behaviors like smiling or laughing at a funeral, in an putrid moment or without a specific reason. In some cases, more rarely jerking contemplate movements can occur.

Schizophrenic symptoms appear depending on the type of schizophrenia a person has. In the case of paranoid schizophrenia, the patient might be constantly alarmed due to the fact that a pickle with interpreting the reality has occurred. Catatonic schizophrenic people stand in a uncommon downhearted region for a long time; the disorganized schizophrenic patients execute a language that nobody understands or even compose rhyming words continuously. A more rare produce of schizophrenia is the Childhood schizophrenia which causes a lack of emotion, disorganized speech, and hallucinations.

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