Bipolar disorder is a mental disorder characterized by changes in mood, thought, energy and dramatic behavior. For example, the incredible feeling happy or grumpy to be accompanied by feelings of sadness despair.
Bipolar disorder is a chronic disease and often are episodic relapses and periods of ill-exist and there is a normal period. Recurrence can be triggered by psychosocial stressors, such as quarrels, divorce, and loss of loved ones.
people who suffer from the disease but remain capable of having a successful career and accompanies his family. He also said, interference bipolarmemiliki diverse spectrum and severity.
2 bipolar disorder is generally lighter than bipolar 1. Women are more likely to suffer from this disorder than men. Period recurrence lighter and there hipomania episodes and major depressive episode.
Symptoms of hipomania similar to mania but more short-duration, lighter, and not too flashy. Mania can cause the patient lost control so that they can perform acts that are at risk without thinking of consequences. For example, burst-hamburkanuang or speeding on the highway.
Bipolar disorder is not treated will worsen the disease. Approximately
20-25 percent of patients experienced episodes of depression, mania,
hypomania or a combination of symptoms within a year. Some one who experience one episode of relapse in a week, even every day.
"The
tragedy of depression and bipolar disorder is most life lost due to
this disease," said Dr.Martin Evers, psychiatry from Northern
Westchester Hospital.
