Can you please explain bipolar disorder?

Neurobiological prob: Bipolar disorder is a complex, neurobiologic problem that impedes temperament control and has significant mood and anxiety problems. These symptom complexes can cycle quickly or slowly. Bpd starts in childhood and persists into adulthood. It is broken down into subgroups depending on the current cycle stage. It is highly heritable and usually requires intense medical & psychological treatment.

Mood swings: The simple answer is episodes of depression and mania separated by periods of relatively "normal" mood. It is a strongly inheritable disorder and the sooner it is recognized and appropriately treated the better the prognosis. A psychiatrist can help you find the treatment that works best for you.

Manic Episodes: By definition, a person needs to have what is known as a manic episode (or something called a mixed episode) in order to have bipolar disorder. It can be rather confusing that one does not also need to have episodes of depression, althought most people with bipolar disorder do have both-episodes of mania and depression. That is why the old name, manic-depression is not always so great.

Bipolar: Is a mood disorder characterized by highs (manic or hypomanic phases) & lows (depressed phases). Mood swings shift from one pole to the opposite, hence the term bipolar.

Answer to Ugly1: Yes it's highly heritable. That means its highly likely to be inherited. Most neuropsychiatric disorders are highly genetically linked or inherited. Bipolar is the most heritable one of them all. When we're making the diagnosis of bpd, we always look to the family history for other cases.

BAD ?: I agree with what the other physicians has written. It is chronic remittent illness . Require ongoing med compliance , therapy and refraining from all illicit drug use.

Bipolar affective : Hypomanic episode : elevated , expansive or irritable mood lasting at least 4 days , but clearly different from the usual non depressed mood, .