Bipolar disorder is a mood condition that is characterized by cyclic fluctuations in mood, ranging from extreme highs and lows. These polarities in mood are also referred to as manic and depressive episodes. Bipolar disorder affects every aspect...
Bipolar disorder, formerly known as manic depression, affects millions of Americans. While medication interventions have improved the prognosis for bipolar disorder, most continue to suffer disability and dysfunction, ranging from poor...
About one-quarter of all American adults suffer from a mental health disorder in any given year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The psychologist's handbook for diagnosis, the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of...
Bipolar disorder, also called manic depression, is a severe illness that causes a person to experience extreme shifts in his mood. Bipolar disorder is the sixth leading cause of disability in the world, according to the World Health Organization....
Mental health disorders are due to a combination of factors, such as genetics, environment and age. There is increasing evidence that food and nutrition play an important role in the prevention, progression and management of mental health...
Those with bipolar disorder tend to suffer the slings and arrows of the ups and downs of life more than most. Since the highs and lows of life can unbalance the bipolar patient, career choices need to be made that are likely to be supporting in...
Worldwide, bipolar affective disorder is the sixth most common cause for disability, Gary Sachs, M.D., wrote in the April 2007 issue of “The New England Journal of Medicine.” People who suffer from this disorder will have periods where...
The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) states that bipolar disorder affects about 5.7 million adults in the United States, with the average age of onset being 25. A patient with the disorder has mood shifts between mania and depression....
Nearly 25 percent of U.S. adults ages 18 and older have a diagnosable mental disorder each year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. The American Psychiatric Association acknowledges that most people with mental disorders...
Mentally ill substance abusers represent a largely unmet challenge in primary care, mental health, and drug and alcohol treatment settings. Although dually diagnosed patients seek services in a variety of places, they remain treatment misfits....
Depressive illnesses may run in families, and people may inherit a vulnerability or tendency toward developing depression, but despite decades of scientific investigation, researchers still do not have absolute proof that people are born with a...
Omega-3 fish oil is the healthy, rich oil that people get from eating fish or taking supplements, reports MedlinePlus. Rich sources of omega-3 fish oil include mackerel, tuna, herring, salmon, cod liver and seal or whale blubber. Omega-3 fish oil...
Hyperactivity and restlessness are common in young children and toddlers. However, anxiety, a very short attention span and overactivity may occur due to underlying causes such as learning disabilities, bipolar disorder, stress and attention...
Fish oil, high in the omega-3 fatty acids eicosapentanoic acid, EPA, and docosahexanoic acid, DHA, is known to reduce inflammation and guard against some forms of heart disease. Fish oil also has been shown to improve brain health by preventing...
Bipolar disorder (also known as manic depression) is characterized by alterations between periods of depression and mania (elation and overexcitement). The symptoms of bipolar disorder are different from the typical ups and downs of everyday life...
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD, a neurological disorder that affects behavior, cognition and attention, afflicts between 2 to 7 percent of adults according to Wrong Diagnosis. Adults with ADHD have great difficulty maintaining...
Seroquel, or quetiapine fumarate, is an antipsychotic medication used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. These mental illnesses are caused by severe chemical imbalances in the brain. Schizophrenia symptoms include disabling interference...
Zyprexa is an antipsychotic that works by altering certain brain chemicals and relieving disabling symptoms associated with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and certain anxiety conditions. Zyprexa Zydis is an orally disintegrating tablet usually...
Developmentally inappropriate attention and/or hyperactivity and impulsivity that interferes with a child's normal daily life is the definition given to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, according to the American Academy of...
ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder), referred to as one of the most common childhood ailments by the National Institute of Mental Health, affects 7 percent of US children ages 3 to 17. Boys are twice as likely to be diagnosed with ADHD...
Individuals with severe mental illnesses often need a mental health care plan. These plans focus on the immediate, intermittent or future needs of the mental health care client. The planning team often consists of family members, psychiatric...
Oppositional defiant disorder, also referred to as ODD, affects 1 to 16 percent of all school-aged children and adolescents, according to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Although many children display oppositional behavior...
Omega-3 fatty acids, found in abundance in fish oil supplements, remain one of the top-selling nutritional supplements in the United States. In fact, the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) notes that fish oil is the...
Mania, depression, recklessness and listlessness are the extremes associated with bipolar disorder, a mental illness characterized by mood instability that can be serious and disabling. Bipolar disorder is also known as manic-depression or...
