Wednesday, 10 February 2016

Know about Bipolar Disorder- Major Contributors and Challenges

Today Bipolar Disorder or the Depression -  any illness related to mental health or well being is not rare in our society.  Atleast 1 out of 100 people suffer from bipolar,  and 1 in 10 suffer from some form of mental illness.   Be it from minute level to extreme difficult medical conditions

Major contributors for mental illness in General and Bipolar Disorder in particular

1.  Genetic reasons
2.  Increasing levels of stress
3.  Circumstances that cause depression
4.  Over activeness
5.  Aggresssive
6.   Economic or Financial anxiety with too much expenditure
7.  Addiction to alcohol/ smoking or drugs
8.  Insomnia or sleep disturbances
9.  Dejection
10.  Introvert not being understood by people arond
11.  Excess sleep

Challenges of handling mental illness or bipolar disorder

1.  Continuous medication
2.  No time limit for cure and needs regular follow ups
3.  Minimum time taken to bring back to normal state usually is longer as minimum of 6 months and above
4.  Need to focus on relapse and remission prevention
5.  Counselling necessary for care givers to handle long term treatment
6.  Necessity to handle anxiety, sleep disorders
7.  Several problems that include, situations not being able to predict normalcy,  no insight into the disease,  agitative patients,  with no understanding,  and the reactions are unpredictable
8.  Aggravated situations that need immediate medical help
9.  Failure to identify early signs and symptoms
10. Restlessness and argumentative behaviour of the patients
11.  Patients insistance that everything is normal and behave overconfident
12.  suffering from multiple patters of sleep disorders, eating and social habits
 
 


 

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