Bipolar disorder is also known as manic-depressive illness, is a brain disorder that causes unusual shift in a person’s mood, energy, and ability to function. Bipolar disorder is severe they can result in damage relationship, poor job, poor school performance, and even suicide. Bipolar disorder can be treated, and people with illness can lead full and productive life.

Bipolar Disorder causes dramatic mood swings- from overly “high” and/ or irritable to sad and hopeless, and then back again, often with periods of normal mood on between, Severe changes in energy and behavior go long worth these changes in mood.

More than 2 million American adults, or about 1 percent of population age 18 and older in any given year, have bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder typically develops in the adolescence or early adulthood. Some people have their first symptoms during childhood, and some develop them later in life. People may suffer for years before it is properly diagnosed and treated. Bipolar is a long-term illness that must be carefully managed through a person’s life.

Signs of symptoms of mania (or manic episode) include:

• Hyper, too much energy
• Talking very fast, jumping from one idea to another
• Extremely irritated
• Little sleep
• Can’t concentrate well
• Poor judgment
• Not believing in your self
• Different behavior from the usual
• Abuse of drugs particular cocaine, alcohol, and sleeping medications.
• Aggressive behavior
• Denial that something is wrong

Signs and symptoms of depression (or depressive episode):

• Sadness, anxious, or empty mood
• Hopelessness
• Feeling guilt, worthless
• Lost of interest or pleasure in activities that one enjoys, including sex
• Decreases energy
• Hard to concentrate, remembering, making decisions
• Sleeping too much or can’t sleep
• Change in appetite and/ or weigh lost or gain
• Though of death or suicide attempts

Hypomania is also known, as a bipolar Hypomania may make you feel good to the person who experiences it and may be associated with good function and doing your work very well. Your family and your friends learn to recognize the mood swing as possible bipolar disorder; the person may deny that anything is going wrong.

Treatment For Bipolar Disorder
Be sure to tell your health care provider all of the symptoms you are having. Report all symptoms you have in the past, even if you don’t have them at the time of your appointment. Since these illnesses can run in families, look at your family history. Tell your health care provider if any of your family members experienced severe mood swing, when diagnosed with mood disorder, or had a “nervous breakdown” or was treated for alcohol or drug abuse. With the right diagnosis, you and your doctor have a better chance of finding a treatment that is right for you.