If Your Adolescent Has Depression or Bipolar Disorder: An Essential Resource for Parents (Adolescent Mental Health Initiative)
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While coping with teenage moodiness can be difficult under any circumstances, it can be especially challenging if a teenager has a serious mood disorder. This concise, readable book is the definitive guide to understanding and getting effective help for adolescents with depression or bipolar disorder, designed for parents and other adults in contact with afflicted teens. It combines the most current scientific expertise available today–including the newest treatments and medications and the lat
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Natural Medicine Guide to Bipolar Disorder, The: New Revised Edition
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More than three million people in the United States suffer from bipolar disorder, a mental illness that is now classified as one of the ten leading causes of disability in the US and the world. While psychiatric drugs may control bipolar disorder, they do not offer any lasting cure and carry the risk of lasting side effects. The Natural Medicine Guide to Bipolar Disorder offers an alternative: innovative, natural, non-drug based approaches that treat the underlying imbalances and restore a healt
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So whilst watching Stephen Fry’s life of the manic depressive, some of the stuff hit home and i kinda had an episode of some kinda (anxiety, mania or depression, or a combination of them all, not sure). So i wrote down all my thoughts on paper, hopefully someone else who is trying to understand themselves will watch these vids and be able to understand themselves a bit better. Even during this video, my mood goes from being “numb”, to being a little hyper, then calming down again. Weird. Also, my apologies for breathing down the mic so much, damn thing, i’ll have to invest it a half decent one :p
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Depression Symptom Experienced By Bipolar Patients
Different illnesses often cause a lot of confusion among people. In recorded history, depression has been already cited. If you’re familiar with Job and King David, they suffered from such disorder. Even Hippocrates mentioned about depression, but at that time, it was referred as melancholia which literarily meant black bile. Medical physiology before humored about the four fluids including black bile, yellow bile, blood, and phlegm. Arts and literature was also able to portray depression for many years. But today, what is meant by a depressive disorder?
Depressive disorders are not new, in fact, for many years people suffered from it without getting any treatment. Millions of people at present are not even aware that they have the disorder. And those that are already aware of it don’t want to accept such fact because they think it’s quite embarrassing. Like other illnesses, depressive disorders are divided into types. People are familiar with major depression, dysthymia, and bipolar disorder.
A person suffers from major depression if he or she exhibits symptoms of sad mood, inability to work, eat, sleep, and enjoy. The patient’s lives are greatly affected. Dysthymia is less severe compared to major depression. Long term symptoms can be noted and some even have major depression episodes. Bipolar disorder involves depression or mania cycles. And though it can’t be cured, the patients can still control and stabilize their episodes through treatments or medications.
Depressive disorders have many symptoms. And when a bipolar patient is in a cycle of depression, all depressive disorder symptoms can be experienced. However, if the person is in the cycle of mania, he will only experience symptoms associated with the cycle.
Here is a list of the depression symptoms felt by bipolar patients:
-Persistently anxious, sad, ‘empty mood’
-Loss of pleasure and interest in activities or hobbies once enjoyed by the individual
-Feelings of pessimism, hopelessness, guilt, helplessness, and worthlessness
-Oversleeping or insomnia
-Overeating that leads to weight gain
-Decreased appetite that leads to losing weight
-Thinks about death and suicide
-Decreased energy and fatigue
-Irritability and restlessness
-Can’t make decisions, unable to concentrate or remember things
-Physical symptoms like chronic pain, headache, and digestive disorders
The following symptoms are not all felt by a bipolar patient. Some of them may experience only few of the symptoms while others may experience many. Each individual exhibits varying degrees of symptom severity.
In order to get the appropriate treatment, you must undergo a complete psychological and physical evaluation. This is necessary in order to determine the type of depressive illness that he or she is suffering. Bipolar depression symptoms may be caused by certain medical conditions or medications. Through a physician’s interview, laboratory tests, and physical examination, the possibilities can be ruled out.
A diagnostic evaluation will look into the patient’s history of symptoms and the physician will ask all sorts of questions like when the symptoms begun, how long it lasts, how severe, and if the symptoms already occurred. You will also be asked if you were previously treated and what medications were given to you. The doctor must also not forget to ask if the bipolar patient used drugs or alcohol, or if he or she ever thought about suicide and death. Questions pertaining to the medical history of family members should not be forgotten.
Bipolar depression symptoms can also affect the mental status of an individual. The evaluation can determine if an individual’s thought pattern, speech, and memory is already affected. Mental disorders don’t require laboratory tests such as x-ray or blood tests. Powerful scans like MRI, CT, PET, and SPECT can’t detect the brain changes of a bipolar patient and that of other mental illnesses.
Only the doctor can properly evaluate a bipolar patient’s state. He can also aid the patient in getting the right treatment or medication necessary to control episodes. The symptoms need not frighten the patient’s family or friends. Although the symptoms may seem quite normal for the individual, it still needs to be treated. It can be very alarming for other people because they might think that you’re insane, especially if you’re already doing extreme things.
Don’t hesitate to consult your doctor. Check out the major symptoms of bipolar, and if you exhibit a few of the symptoms, perhaps you’re suffering from bipolar.
Nice Little Overview,
I honestly think that there is such a vast difference between Depression and Bipolar Disorder, I think they should have just gone ahead and printed two separate books.
This book is well-written and easy to read, and short. It provides a quick overview of what these illnesses are, warning signs, an overview of treatments, and getting accommodations at school.
I liked the short stories from parents about real-life kids with these disorders, and I liked the one line tipes and summaries on every couple pages, offset in the margins.
I was rather shocked that in the short section on dietary supplements they only mention SAM-e and St. John’s Wort without mentioning Omega-3 Fatty Acids which HAVE been proven to be of help. It was even mentioned as using as an adjunct with lithium.
There also wasn’t any emphasis on “sleep hygiene” which is always touted as being so important to success.
It is far from a “Bible” of adolescent Depression or Bipolar Disorder, but as I said, it is a nice little overview.
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|a godsend,
this book has turned my life around. having been diagnosed with bipolar type II in 2002 (age 19), i’ve spent the past 5 years on various pharmaceuticals, magnificently tempering the depression and mood swings, and my personality. but did i feel i was living? no. i had a strict circadium rhythm from the meds (13 hrs. of sleep a night), and i was an emotional and physical zombie. my intellectual brain stopped functioning, and i had to drop out of college. i didn’t regret being on meds, because they did help keep me pseudo-sane and definately alive, but i wanted more for myself. i found this book in a health food store, and figured i’d educate myself on alternatives, not believing anything but meds could truly ‘work’. well. this isn’t true. every person suffering from a mental disorder needs to know that there are options to getting better, and traditional methods of psychiatric pharmaceuticals are only one of those options. i really wish someone had told me that at the beginning of my diagnosis (and really, at my first onset of depression at age 8).
all the chapters in this book are informative and useful. specifically, chapter five reviews a theraputic clinic outside chicago called Pfeiffer Treatment Center. after reading the review, i applied and became a patient last year, and started their program with immediate sucess (relief within days). it turns out much of my mental instability was due to candidiasis, being toxic with the mineral copper with a deficiency of zinc, and too little of histamine (and thus overmethylation.) i am taking very bio-specific supplements 3x daily to balance the mineral and neuotransmitter issues, and i’m on a copper-free, yeast/sugar-free diet, and i am loosely following the blood type A diet (who ever said life was easy?) the results? mood swings are gone. irritablity is gone. depression is gone. i’ve a healthy range of moods and emotions, and experience many other *unrelated* benefits as well (effortless weight loss, ocd spectrum disorder gone, increased energy, focus and clarity, improved overall health). and i’m not on any meds. most psychiatrists i’ve seen would call this sacriledge, even dangerous. i call it a smart application of science. and its a start to a new life. not something i could have achieved with meds and talk therapy (and i’ve been doing t.t. for 20 very long years).
on another note, i have had incredible success treating/eliminating my food allergies and ADD with NAET, a technique covered in chapter 8.
Please consider that this book has radically altered at least one person’s life for the better. i pray it will help others as it helped me.
ps. it is vital to read this book with an open mind.
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|wow!,
this is a great book for anyone looking gor an alternative to perscription medication. so far i have used some supplements recommended by the book and it is working. she does a good job of explaining the chemical reasons why and how things such as gluten, sugar, and caffiene actually effect our brain chemistry.
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|I Need a List,
Some good information. Some of which you can get off of the Internet. Some of which you can’t. I waited a while before writing this review, because people were praising the book so highly I thought I had missed something during my initial reading. So I went back and read it again. I didn’t miss anything. It’s nice to know that there are alternative therapies, because I have been on every med out there that’s use to treat mania, and I’ve had major problems with all of them. They either don’t work at all (the anti-convulsants) or send me to the emergency room with outrageous blood sugar problems (the atypical antipsychotics) that only clear up when I go off of the meds. My doctor talked about trying natural remedies, but he was unfamiliar with them. So after deciding that I was not going to take insulin just so that I could take psych meds, I started researching natural remedies for myself. I also decided that since one med that I know of does cut my mania within hours of taking it, I do not need to be on meds 24/7/365. I think this 24/7/365 med taking is marketing hype by the pharmaceutical companies. Plus, my doctor told me that, outside of lithium, no other drug is actually known to forestall manic episodes. So unless a drug takes weeks to build up in your system before it’ll work, there is no scientific reason to take the drug 24/7/365.
What I really need from this book is a clear and organized list of the names of the alternative meds and a description of each; for instance, a description of what each is supposed to treat, as well as comprehensive state by state lists of the clinics that practice natural medicine. My health insurance would never pay for me to go out of state for treatment. So the book is not helpful, unless I can use it to self-medicate. All I learned from it is that there are alternatives. However, for most of us, who have limited resources, the alternative resources are out of reach.
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