What is bipolar?how do you handle those kind of people?

Affective disorder: A type of affective disorder characterized by periods of mania in addition to depression. Some pts have mild sx while others have more severe mood swings. Treatment involves mood stabilizers and sometimes other drugs as well. Biggest problem is compliance because when pts are manic they frequently do not recognize a need for meds-- important to include family in treatment.

Bipolar?: Bipolar affective d/o is a chronic remittent illness with mood-swing, depression , manic and hypomanic symptoms , inherited the earlier diagnosed and treated. The better the outcome. U can read about it more on google.

Complicated: BP symptoms include racing thoughts, grandiosity, mood swings, agitation & sleep probs. Good meds (e.g., symbyax, (fluoxetine and olanzapine) lithium & depakote) are available to treat bp. Careful diagnosis is essential since BP and adhd share symptoms such as inattention, distractibility, sleep probs, impulsivity & risk taking and b/c BP can be misdiagnosed as unipolar depression. Persons w/ BP i can be very impaired.

Ups and Downs: Bipolar disorder used to be called manic - depression. It refers to people who have depressions but also have periods of mild or more severe energized states called manias or hypo (a little bit) mania. Treatment involves using medications and other interventions (light, therapy) to stabilize moods. For more you can look in this site - moodsurfing.Com - search for "bipolar".