why so many people have bipolar?what the comman thingin one person to the other....?

Answer 1

Bipolar disorder was widely misdiagnosed as Depression for too many years. People seek help when they're feeling depressed and not feeling manic, so the doctor makes the wrong diagnosis. Bipolar disorder is treatable with the right mood stabilizers. People are not labeled bipolar because doctors need to fill a quota like cops writing tickets. There's just more awareness of the illness, more doctors are diagnosing it accurately and people are more willing to discuss it openly.

Answer 2

OK, so it's a mood disorder and a serious mental illness. It has a strong genetic component, but appears to be triggered environmentally. There are no diagnostic tests for it, just psychiatric evaluation. Most sufferers are not diagnosed until middle age, and it takes an average of around 8-10 years to get a correct diagnosis. Historically, figures suggested it affects about 0.8% of the population at some point, which makes it about half as common as schizophrenia. In recent years, bipolar disorder has become an 'in' diagnosis, and many more people are being diagnosed at younger and younger ages. As with ADHD, this fad may well pass with time, although for the moment many celebrities appear to be 'popularising' it.

It is characterised by episodes of severe clinical depression and mania or hypomania (for definitions of those, see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_diagnostic_criteria_for_bipolar_disorder ). The extreme end of mania often turns into psychosis, complete with hallucinations and delusions. During manic phases, the person's judgement and perception of reality is severely compromised, leading to risky actions with potentially damaging consequences (financially, sexually and relationship-wise). Untreated, episodes generally worsen over time due to an effect known as kindling. Untreated Bipolar sufferers are at a very high risk of suicide: 20-25% attempt it, and 15% succeed.

The cycles in bipolar disorder are much longer than people generally believe. Anyone whose mood changes from minute to minute is very unlikely to be bipolar. Bipolar 1 is characterised by mood episodes lasting many months, while Bipolar 2 has episodes in the region of weeks to months. Rapid and ultra-rapid cycling bipolar disorder is rare, and cycles last days to weeks.

There are many drugs available to treat the symptoms of bipolar (there is no cure). These are either anti-convulsants or anti-psychotics (personally I take both), and the most well known of these is Lithium. Most patients will go through a number of different drugs before finding one that works for them.

Answer 3

I was diagnoesd with the Bi-polar disorder. Then later told it was a pile of crap. I was told by another doctor that bipolar disorder is over diagnosed. Partly because there's no "real test" that can be done to prove it real or not. The place I was in was of force and my parents decision, they had a certain quota of people that needed to be "sick". And to stick with the quota, they need to come up with bull crap things. Even the slightest amount of anger, and they say "Bi-polar". Cops do the same... They have a certain amount of tickets they NEED to write a day. So in order to make that goal, they catch the last few people on the smallest of things. Something that they'd only ususally add to the first charges if the people was being un-ruley... Ok, sorry. Got a bit off toipc. To answer your question in short: It's because it's untracable.

Answer 4

It used to be called Manic Depressive Disorder..which means the person would have really ..really.. happy times, where they thought they could do anything. Then the manic sets in and they become depressed, really depressed. So, totally opposite moods.

Now its called Bi Polar and I think too much medication is given out to people who may not be Bi-Polar..just have normal highs and lows..

so much ADD ADHD... on and on.. Dr's have gone nuts with labelling people with things then medicating them.

Answer 5

There are many people who would make fun of the prospect of changing their destinies. This is because it thinks that no one gets more that exactly what is put in his destiny.

Answer 6

most are told they are crazy, put on meds

Answer 7

http://www.isitreallydepression.com/mini_c/isitreallydepression/

http://www.psychologyinfo.com/depression/bipolar.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipolar_disorder

http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/tv_and_radio/secretlife_index.shtml