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Question: what is bipolar? How is it diagnosed? what research is there that such bipolar exist?
Brief Answer:
It is another serious psychiatric disorder
Detailed Answer:
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Alike schizophrenia bipolar disorder is another serious psychiatric disorder. It is often characterized by isolated episodes of mania and depression thus called bipolar. In other terms it is mood disorder which results in extreme of mood with dysfunctional implications.
When there is extreme state psychotic symptoms can also occur during episodes of depression as well as mania. The psychotic symptoms often include delusions (false belief), hallucinations ( perception without stimuli like hearing voices, abnormal and disorganized behavior among others.
The diagnosis is made on the basis of detailed history and mental state of patient.
In the era of functional imaging a plethora of abnormalities can be detected in bipolar disorder thus substantiating the existence of bipolar disorder. It is estimated that about 2-5 % of human population have some form of bipolar disorder.
Currently there are number of medicines available which help to treat it and most people live optimum life.
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It is another serious psychiatric disorder
Detailed Answer:
Hello,
Thanks for using Healthcaremagic.
Alike schizophrenia bipolar disorder is another serious psychiatric disorder. It is often characterized by isolated episodes of mania and depression thus called bipolar. In other terms it is mood disorder which results in extreme of mood with dysfunctional implications.
When there is extreme state psychotic symptoms can also occur during episodes of depression as well as mania. The psychotic symptoms often include delusions (false belief), hallucinations ( perception without stimuli like hearing voices, abnormal and disorganized behavior among others.
The diagnosis is made on the basis of detailed history and mental state of patient.
In the era of functional imaging a plethora of abnormalities can be detected in bipolar disorder thus substantiating the existence of bipolar disorder. It is estimated that about 2-5 % of human population have some form of bipolar disorder.
Currently there are number of medicines available which help to treat it and most people live optimum life.
I hope this answers your question.
If you have any further query, I would be glad to help you.
If not, you may close the discussion and if possible you may rate the answer for my future patients.
In future if you wish to contact me directly, you can use the below mentioned link:
http://doctor.healthcaremagic.com/doctors/dr-ashok-kumar/67386
Thanks and regards.
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