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Suggest Treatment For Bipolar Disorder

My mother in law is suffering from Bipolar Disorder. She has been under a prolonged medication of heavy dosage drugs,and was not able keep up with normal good health. Since there was no re consideration of the course she was undertaking by any specialists, we had her checked by a psychiatrist at NIMHANS in Bangalore. Here there was a dramatic reducton in the medicinal course and she was doing good,but suddenly in the follow up check ,medicines were increased in contents and she started geeting into regular series of Depression. At present she cannot recollect the basic activities related to dressin and even brush her teeth. We are confused with her state now.
Thu, 30 Oct 2014
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Hello,
Bipolar disorder is of such nature. It becomes difficult to deal with mood swings in chronic cases if dose of drugs is not mantained or adjusted properly. Please talk to your psychiatrist about her illness and mood swings if she has any, even on medications.
The dose of mood stabilisers would have to be adjusted.
Thanks.
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Suggest Treatment For Bipolar Disorder

Hello, Bipolar disorder is of such nature. It becomes difficult to deal with mood swings in chronic cases if dose of drugs is not mantained or adjusted properly. Please talk to your psychiatrist about her illness and mood swings if she has any, even on medications. The dose of mood stabilisers would have to be adjusted. Thanks.