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What Is Bipolar Disorder
What is bipolar disorder? William Lawson: Bipolar disorder is probably a group of disorders but we like to look at it as one disorder that's characterized by mood swings and the mood swings can vary from going from a mania being so impulsive and o...
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How to Balance Bipolar Disorder
Female Speaker: He went -- and it was scary, it was just a very scary situation because we hadn't really been through that. Host: Life has normal ups and downs, but for nearly six million Americans who suffer from bipolar disorder, those emotional...
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What is Bipolar Disorder
Female: Bipolar disorder, once known as manic-depressive psychosis affects nearly six million American adults. But what exactly is bipolar disorder? Male: Bipolar disorder is a sever mood disorder that causes unusual shifts in a person’s mood, ene...
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Descent Into Manic Depression
Descent into Manic Depression Well, I suppose it's funny, it's a little like the waves of grief. I think you have waves of awareness and one of the things that I found with grief was actually, I was well prepared for it by the cyclicality of my ma...
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How to Live with Bipolar Disorder Part 2/2
One of the things that’s impressive about Sasha is that he has himself taking charge of his own treatment and that’s important because treating any medical illness, but especially severe or complicated ones like bipolar disorder, and never as a on...
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Learn About Bipolar-Disorder
Melissa: It never occurred to me that it might be something, you know, physical. Female Speaker: Melissa, a young artist from Northern California is a happy, creative woman with a passion for her career. Her life used to consist of 80-hour workwee...
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Knowing Yourself When You Have Bipolar Disorder
Knowing Yourself When You Have Bipolar Disorder Hi! I'm John Macmanamy and I live with bipolar disorder. I am both an author and an advocate. I'm here today to share with you what I regard is my first and foremost coping strategy: knowing thyself....
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How to Live with Bipolar Disorder Part 1/2
I was 18-years old the first time that I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and locked up on a psych hospital. Somehow it seems like a really good idea to walk down in a subway station and get on to the tracks, walk along the tracks, like for som...
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Coping With Bipolar Disorder - Jane Alexander's Story
Jane Alexander: On my 32nd birthday, I took one of those online depression tests or bipolar tests like, how are you feeling and I took it as honestly as possible and I top hit enter and got the results and it said, you must be one of the most happ...
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Diagnosing and Treating Bipolar Disorder
Female: Most people with bipolar disorder can successfully balance their moods with medication, but how do you know that it is bipolar disorder? Male: Although bipolar disorder cannot be identified physiologically, for example for a blood test or ...
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What is Bipolar Disorder
Male1: Doctor Lanet is going to discuss the definition of bipolar. Male2: Alright, very quickly, in many people’s minds, bipolar disorder means mania or that is an important part of this. Now that is true, but people think of many as grandiosity a...
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Mindfulness and Managing Stress When You Have Bipolar Disorder
Mindfulness and Managing Stress When You Have Bipolar Disorder Hi! I'm John Macmanamy and I live with bipolar disorder. I am both an author and an advocate. I'm here today to share with you what I have learned about mindfulness and managing stress...
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Getting Along with Your Bipolar Loved One
Getting Along with Your Bipolar Loved One Hi, I’m John McManamy and I live with Bipolar Disorder. I have been on both side of the equation. I have been on both side to the equation as a patient and as a loved one. I'm both an author and an advocat...
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Connectedness and Resiliency While Living with Bipolar Disorder
Connectedness and Resiliency While Living with Bipolar Disorder Hi, I’m John McManamy and I live with Bipolar Disorder. I’m both an author and advocate. I’m here with you today to share it with you what I’ve learn about connectedness and resilienc...
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Bipolar Disorder in the Workplace
Bipolar Disorder in the Workplace Julie: Hi I am Julie from Massapequa. I have a question for you. If you are bipolar, should you tell your employer about this and are there any laws and place about people who are bipolar and it is considered disa...
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The Journey Toward Recovery from Depression and Bipolar Disorder
The Road To Recovery: Carroll Young: I was given treatment unvoluntarily. I reported police that, there was a fire, of course there wasn't. And I think that I have to give a police credit, they could see that there was something missing there and ...
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How Bipolar Disorder Affects Children
Jennifer Matthews: With a rooftop apartment in the center of the Windy City, Kathleen Rau is usually flying high. But her spirits sank when she was diagnosed with breast cancer a few months ago. Kathleen Rau: When I heard the word 'cancer,' and sh...
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The Road to Recovery from Bipolar
Joanie Tourison: In order to take care of my illness daily, I have been very fortunate. I take medication in the night and when I wake up, and I do it daily. Kenneth Rommel Gillard: I went through several medicines and it didn't work and so with t...
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Three Essential Lifestyle Strategies for Living with Bipolar Disorder
Three Essential Lifestyle Strategies for Living with Bipolar Disorder Hi! I'm John Macmanamy and I live with bipolar disorder. I am both an author and an advocate. I'm here to share with you today three essential lifestyle strategies. Let's get st...
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Possible Causes for Bipolar Disorder
Possible Causes for Bipolar Disorder The causes of bipolar disorder have been illusive to scientist over the last 30 years and it's not for lack of effort. We’ve been looking at lots of different things to try and figure out and pin point what cau...
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