Bipolar Personal Stories WisdomCard™
Our Guides and Physician Review team have organized the Top 10 Health Resources on Bipolar Personal Stories and compiled helpful research notes below.
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- Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI) - Psychotherapy, Research, Training (1 nomination)www.cci.health.wa.gov.au
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Research Notes on Bipolar Personal Stories
Bipolar disorder is a mental illness also known as manic-depression or manic-depressive illness.1 According to pyschiatrists, individuals with bipolar disorder experience episodes of abnormally elevated levels of energy and impulsiveness known as mania or the manic phase of bipolar. They also go through the depressive phase which is characterized by symptoms of depression.2
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- Personal stories written by people with bipolar disorder focus on various aspects of living with the illness.3
- Reading personal stories serve to help us understand the problems people encounter in dealing with other people, doctors, hospitals, medications, and the stigma of bipolar disorder.
- Below are some stories from those who have lived with bipolar disorder.
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Research Notes References
- ↑ NIMH: Bipolar Disorder
- ↑ Mayo Clinic: Bipolar Disorder
- ↑ HealthyPlace: Personal Stories on Living with Bipolar Disorder
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- Contributor: Tara Salamone
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Last update: Oct. 26, 2009
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- Contributor: Tara Salamone
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Bipolar Disorder Personal Stories, Bipolar Personal Story, Personal Stories About Bipolar, Personal Story About Bipola, Personal Story About Bipolar, Bipolar Personal Stories and Blogs, Bipolar Wisdom
- Last update: Jun. 4, 2009
Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic by filtering out spam and bad links.
