Nearly one in 25 American adults has serious mental illness, which means odds are someone in your life is coping with anxiety, depression, OCD, bipolar disorder or another debilitating condition. Still, shame about mental illness — likely a holdover from when people wrongly believed such...
For those with bipolar disorder, clinical recovery does not necessarily mean functional recovery, and the usual early age of onset may further reduce an individual's preparedness for employment. Two brief vignettes are used to discuss how occupational therapists can help their clients maintain their ...
When you first discover that your loved one has bipolar disorder, make a crisis file folder or notebook with important names, phone numbers and contact information in it. Pre-crisis, have your loved one or friend sign consent forms so that in the event of a crisis, someone will be able ...
The first thing to make clear to anyone you’re trying to help understand a mental illness is that while mental illness isnot curable, per se, people can successfully live with it. In fact, some people do recover quite well with treatment. (Which part of that you want to emphasize depend...
with bipolar are not actively experiencing a mood episode, their condition can stillimpact their mental well-beingand cognitive function. If someone only experiences depressive episodes and does not experience manic episodes, they are considered to have unipolar depression and not bipolar disorder. ...
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Kim Mills: Up to 4% of people in the US live with bipolar disorder, what used to be called manic depression, but as common as this mood disorder is, it is also often misunderstood and misdiagnosed. Indeed, many people with bipolar disorder wait years between experiencing their first symptom...
Borderline personality disorder characteristics in young adults with recurrent mood disorders: a comparison of bipolar and unipolar depression In young adults it can be difficult to differentiate between an early bipolar illness and borderline personality disorder. There are considerable areas of ... DJ ...
Omega-3s have even been found to help those withbipolar disorder, a psychiatric disorder characterized by extreme mood swings. Adaptogenic Herbs Adaptogens are a unique group of herbs that work like a thermostat to keep you in a balanced physiological state known ashomeostasis. ...