Bipolar disorder is an illness where a person experiences extreme changes in mood, thought, energy and behavior. He may feel manic for an instant and depressed the next.

In manic episodes, there is a distinct period of abnormally elevated or irritable mood lasting at least one week. During that time, the person experiences three or more of the following symptoms: grandiosity, decreased need for sleep, pressure to keep talking, flight of ideas, distractibility, increase in goal-oriented activity and excessive involvement in pleasurable activities that have a high potential for painful consequences. A manic person can be reckless and impulsive. He is very self-confident and optimistic. In severe cases, a manic person may even have delusions and hallucinations.

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Until recently, Bipolar disorder, a serious, nevertheless treatable mental illness was rarely diagnosis in young children. The symptoms of this mental illness included extreme changes in mood, energy, thinking, and behavior. Today, doctors can recognize this illness and treat them accordingly in young children.

Also known as manic depression, bipolar disorder symptoms can appear as early as infancy stage. The signs and symptoms include an erratic sleep patterns and much difficulty settling a baby who is diagnosed later in life as having bipolar disorder. Separation anxiety or extreme tantrums and rages may have had happened in the toddler s life.

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Depression is one of the most crippling, but misunderstood disorders ever encountered. Research has come up with several different types of depression now, each with it’s own unique characteristics and symptoms. However, they’ve also found that some types of depression actually overlap into other kinds too and that they’re original diagnosis of a patient could be wrong.

One of the types of depression that is extremely difficult to diagnose is called “bipolar disorder”. Unfortunately, new studies have found that because of these new overlap theories that it can now actually take up to five years (yes, five years) before a person could possibly be correctly diagnosed as “manic” or bipolar.

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WITHDRAWAL symptoms have posed one problem common to almost all potent anti-depressants. The newsest of such drugs, Lexapro, is no exception. Though Lexapro’s side-effects during treatment are usually mild and manageable, its withdrawal symptoms can be severe, particularly if treatment is stopped abruptly instead of tapering off.

Withdrawal symptoms can occur even if a dosage is missed since the body assumes that the treatment has been withdrawn. Withdrawal symptoms have been seen to occur within eight hours of a missed dosage, regardless of the quantity of the dosage.

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How does depression come about? It is basically a chemical imbalance in the body. Your health can have some serious side effects from this imbalance.

It is typical for those who are diagnosed with some serious conditions, usually terminal in nature, to be affected by depression. However, it is up to you to make sure that your life is not made harder by this depression. You have to ensure that your conditions do not cause you to have a serious depression that may give rise to some other ailments.

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