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Depression Mania Bipolar Understanding Mental Illness and a Quote by Khalil Gibran

Dr. Martha Andrea Castro Noriega, MD WMA FACS

UPDATE: August 10, 2021 scroll down to the bottom of the article

Bipolar disorder is a mental illness that causes dramatic shifts in a person’s mood, energy and ability to think clearly. People with bipolar experience high and low moods—known as mania and depression—which differ from the typical ups-and-downs most people experience, known as distimias.

Depression

The lows of bipolar depression are frequently so debilitating that patients are unable to get out of bed. Typically, people experiencing a depressive episode tend to have difficulty falling and staying asleep, while others sleep far more than usual.

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When patients fall into depression, even minor decisions such as what to eat for dinner can be overwhelming and difficult. They tend to become obsessed with feelings of desperation, loneliness, loss, personal failure, guilt or helplessness; what is very worrisome is that this negative thinking can lead to thoughts of suicide.

A SHORT STORY BY KHALIL GIBRAN «The Asylum»

“So I decided to enter this asylum. At least here I can be myself.’ — Khalil Gibran

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Mania

Most of the time, people in manic states are unaware of the negative consequences of their actions. With bipolar disorder, suicide is an ever-present danger because some people become suicidal even in manic states. Learning from prior episodes what kinds of behavior signals “red flags” of manic behavior can help manage the symptoms of the illness.

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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“But if love is not the cure, it certainly can act as a very strong medicine.” — Kay Redfield Jamison.

In the largest study of its kind, involving more than 50,000 subjects in 14 countries, researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and more than 200 collaborating institutions have identified 20 new genetic associations with one of the most prevalent and elusive mental illnesses of our time — bipolar disorder.

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Publicado por Dr. Martha Andrea Castro Noriega, MD WMA FACS

8 comentarios en “Depression Mania Bipolar Understanding Mental Illness and a Quote by Khalil Gibran”

  2. Yeah it’s a nasty condition. I think most people have had depression at some time in their lives, but this condition must be really hard to deal with

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  3. SMiLes Dear Doc As Science Suggests
    Mood Disorders And Creativity

    Are Highly Tied Together

    As Art Makes

    Regulating

    Emotions And

    Integrating Senses

    Through Expressing

    Art in Bio-Feedback So

    Much More Possible

    As All Natural Therapy Indeed…
    True Both Asperger’s And Bi-Polar
    Non-Specified For me As my Bi-Polar
    Will Be The Darkest of All Depressions Lasting

    For 66 Months or So Most Recently From 2008
    Through 2013 or Literally Decades Spending Life
    in Hyperthymia Where Hypomania Becomes A More
    Creating Way of Coloring Life With So Much Energy
    The River

    Just Truly

    Never Stops

    FLoWinG

    True Work And
    School 33 Years
    And 19 Years in Tandem
    The Chronic to Acute Stress
    Dammed My River of Creativity Up
    With the Darkest of Tarred Bird Swamps
    not able to Fly Out For Wings All Glued together
    A Thousand Years Without a Feeling of A Smile or
    Even Memory of that Emotional Feelings ever in 1 Second then..

    Yet There is Asperger’s Syndrome and Unusually High IQ in Verbal
    Ways of Intelligence of Rationality in Guiding A Very Low Redundancy
    of Inhibition Mind That Just Can’t Filter Our Stimulus From The Environment
    In All Feelings And Senses Well Where A Trip Back From Hypo-Frontality
    Becomes Bio-Feed Back Mastered Though the Neo-Cortical Rational
    Mind Extreme of Systemizing Higher Verbal IQ Asperger’s Mind too

    As Yin of Creativity

    And Yang

    of Rationality

    Both in Rather Extremes

    Co-Exist in the Same Fredenstein Mind Now
    From Head to Toe and More of Course too as
    Natural Empath Taking In Feelings of Everyone Else too…

    True Bi-Polar Folks Express Great Poetry As They Often See
    So Much of the Human Potential to Go to Both Hell and Heaven on Earth

    Second

    Abode

    of

    Hyperthymia for me, Hehe…
    As My Psychiatrist Says i am
    One of Few who Will Master it
    Through Dance And Song Regulating Emotions and
    Integrating Senses With No Drugs To Buffer My Soul
    Down to Ground Externally Yet True the Volume of
    my Creativity Brings Tropical Storm Winds of Fredaches too…

    Nice to See

    You From

    Tropical Storm
    Fred’s Soon to Be
    ReTiRMeNT Home too
    The Panhandle of Trump
    GoingS on in Florida Down Down Towns..:)

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