Posted on May 28, 2007 by cherished79
I describe bipolar as a house with three levels. There is the upstairs (mania), main floor (even mood) and of course the basement where the shackles of (depression) are clasped around your ankles. I seem to wind up in the basement much more often than upstairs. I was diagnosed with Bipolar in 1995. (These are [...]
Filed under: mixed state, plummeting | Tagged: anti-depressants, bipolar disorder, depression, mania, medication, mental illness, mood disorder | 2 Comments »
Posted on May 27, 2007 by cherished79
Reuters Health
Thursday, May 17, 2007
By Will Boggs, MD
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Simple cognitive tests can help predict the likelihood that a person with mild cognitive impairment will progress to Alzheimer’s disease (AD), researchers report in the journal Neurology.
Among 539 older individuals with mild cognitive impairment, the overall rate of progression to AD [...]
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Posted on May 25, 2007 by cherished79
Depression Hits U.S. Blacks Harder Than Whites
March 8, 2007 08:40:38 PM PST
THURSDAY, March 8 (HealthDay News) — Black Americans are more likely than whites to suffer severe, untreated and disabling depression, U.S. research shows.
Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health analyzed data on 6,082 people who took part in a national survey conducted [...]
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Posted on May 22, 2007 by cherished79
June 4, 2007 08:40:48 PM PST
MONDAY, June 4 (HealthDay News) — Depressed people get more of a psychological boost from marriage than people who aren’t depressed, even though depressed people tend to have poorer quality marriages, a U.S. study finds.
In the study, a team at Ohio State University (OSU) in Columbus analyzed data on 3,066 [...]
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Posted on May 15, 2007 by cherished79
Mayo Clinic psychiatrist Daniel Hall-Flavin, M.D., answers:
Bipolar disorder and alcoholism frequently occur together. In some cases, bipolar disorder clearly develops before alcoholism. Bipolar disorder may increase the risk of alcoholism or other forms of substance abuse. It’s not clear why this occurs. But it may have a genetic component.
When bipolar disorder and alcoholism occur together, [...]
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