Posts Tagged ‘Excessive’

Bipolar Disorder – Why Do I Do the Things I Do?

Do you ever wonder why you do the things you do? Do you sometimes feel as if you have no control over yourself or your behavior when you're in a manic episode, or why you can't seem to pull yourself out of it when you're in a depressed episode? Bipolar disorder is a chemical imbalance [...]

Introduction to Soaring & Crashing – My Bipolar Adventures

I'm not a famous actress like Patty Duke (Anna Marie in They call me Anna) or Carrie Fisher (in the best Awful); or a gifted psychiatrist like Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison (in An Unquiet Mind); or a flamboyant, young journalist like Lizzie Simon (in Detour: My Bipolar Road Trip in 4-D); or a notorious newswoman [...]

Depression Symptoms and Treatment

Depression Description Now a days many people are experiencing a common health problem Depression and many other disorders caused by it in their daily lives. Most of the people do not know the cause of disorder they face till they get diagnosed and find it as the depression symptoms. We can assume around 3 out [...]

Bipolar Mania, Hypomania, and Cyclothymia

Many people are familiar with the main types of bipolar disorder - bipolar I disorder and bipolar II disorder. However, not as many people are familiar with the other types of bipolar disorder: hypomania and cyclothymia. If you have three or more of the following symptoms listed below most of the day -- nearly every [...]

Anxiety Physical Symptoms Can Be Frightening

I didn't know what was wrong with me. When the physical anxiety symptoms worsened I was afraid I might have some horrible disease. I was tired all the time, I had horrible headaches, my stomach was always upset and I had a constant nagging pain in my upper back. at night I would fall asleep [...]

What You Need To Know – Antidepressants And Herbs In The Treatment Of Depression

What Is Depression? People use the word depression loosely to mean a number of different moods. I prefer to use the term clinical depression to distinguish the type of depression that may improve with medication. Clinical depression is more than the blues or sadness. It is not something a person can just get over or [...]

Anxiety and Panic Attacks in Children and Adults

Anxiety attacks can affect people of all ages, including children. in fact, anxiety disorders are the most common type of mental health disorder in children, affecting as many as one in ten of young people. Anxiety and panic attacks in children is more common than you would think. What causes anxiety in children? There are [...]

Treatment For Depression and Anxiety

As time moves on, doctors, scientists and medical professionals are better understanding health conditions. As you have likely noticed by now. The types of health conditions and mental afflictions seem to be endless. Fortunately most of them can be identified and treated accordingly. Often this is done with a prescription medication and/or certain daily practices. [...]

How Doctors Make a Depression Diagnosis

While it is true that there are no specific medical tests such as laboratory testing that can definitively diagnose depression, doctors are able to recognize the symptoms of depression based primarily on a patients description of their symptoms and make an accurate diagnosis. Depression is basically a blanket term used to describe the primary symptoms [...]

Depression – Medication

Depression is something that many people are uncomfortable talking about. a large percentage of the population suffers from clinical depression, yet few people want to talk about it. it can be characterized by things like over-eating or under-eating, lethargy, excessive sadness, and even bodily pain among other things. Those who have never suffered from depression [...]