Bipolar Disorder
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Do your family, friends, or co-workers ever comment on your mood swings? Do you sometimes feel like you can “conquer the world” one day but can’t get out of bed the next? Are you afraid of using medication to manage your moods? If so, you may be experiencing bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression.
The seriousness of this psychological condition exists in its extreme shifts in mood, attitude, behavior, and energy. Sufferers experience manic highs and depressive lows. In comparison to the common — and usually brief — mood swings we all experience, the extreme highs and lows of bipolar disorder can last for prolonged periods. If you’ve experienced a mood swing that lasts for weeks or even months, inhibiting your ability to function and maintain relationships, it may be time to consider the depression treatment program at The Meadows Arizona.
Bipolar symptoms commonly expressed by clients include:
- Extreme highs or optimism, followed by despair, sadness, or emotional numbness
- Severe irritability and/or angry outbursts
- False, unrealistic, and inflated beliefs about one’s talents and capacities
- Sleeping less while feeling excessively energetic
- Increased rates of speech and thoughts
- Inability to focus on tasks or concentrate
- Diminished capacity for judgment
- Uncontrolled spontaneity without a sense of consequences
- Delusional thinking and hallucinations
- Inability to experience pleasure
- Tiredness
- Physical and mental laziness
- Appetite/weight changes
- Trouble sleeping
- Inability to remember things
- Feelings of despair, insignificance, unworthiness, or guilt
- Preoccupation with death or ideas about suicide
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If you know anyone suffering from bipolar depression — a family member, friend, or yourself — please don’t wait to get help. Denying that a problem exists, or minimizing its impact on your life and family, will not help the situation. Most often, the condition will worsen over time, and the risk of suicide is higher in people with bipolar disorder, as are rates of alcohol and drug addiction.
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The Meadows Arizona depression treatment program — a meticulously designed, holistic program that focuses on mind, body, and spirit — can help restore your life and energy. We invite you to get a competent diagnosis and treatment as soon as possible. To learn more, please contact an intake coordinator at
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