Bipolar Disorder, also called manic-depressive illness, is a serious disorder of the brain marked by cyclical mood swings, which often disrupt work, school, family, and social life. The symptoms typically begin in a person’s late teens or twenties and affect men and women equally. If left untreated, it can lead to suicide in nearly 20 percent of cases. The illness is often misunderstood and difficult to diagnose because its symptoms may not reappear for as much as a year at a time. Many times, it is initially misdiagnosed especially when hypomania (milder manic episodes) is not recognized. Since mental illnesses cannot be identified by a blood test or a brain scan, diagnosis must be made on the basis of

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Bipolar disorder is a very complex disease to many people, including medical doctors, and rightly so. As with every other disease in allopathic medicine, there will never be a cure for bipolar disorder. You can’t solely treat this disorder from the physical, and especially with harmful, man-made pharmaceutical drugs. Plus, Western medical doctors admit that they don’t know the cause of this disorder.

All disease and disorder first occur on the energy level before manifesting physically. Therefore, healing of all diseases must occur first on the energy level, the root or causative level. This is why no cure or healing of bipolar disorder will ever occur in Western medicine because Western medicine does not deal with energy or vibration,

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Diagnosis Bipolar Disorder: Bipolar disorder is a severe biologic illness characterized by recurrent fluctuations in mood. Typically, patients experience alternating episodes in which mood is abnormally elevated or abnormally depressed-separated by periods in which mood is relatively normal. (Lehne, 2004, p. 321)

The following is a short synopsis according to the DSM-IV-TR, Criteria for Bipolar Disorder includes a distinct period of abnormality and persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood for at least:
- 4 days for hypomania
- week for mania

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Everybody has changes in moods, or mood swings, from having days where we feel good to bad days where we feel depressed or down. Bipolar affective disorder is the extreme of these circumstances and is both debilitating and often very dangerous. Bipolar affective disorder has a number of disadvantages such as poor or broken down family relationships, loss of job and possibly self harm or suicide. it is possible for children to show the first symptoms of bipolar disease but it surfaces around late adolescence or early adulthood. Bipolar affective disorder is a disease and it should be treated as such by the patient, the patients network of family and friends and the doctors and psychiatrists that help with

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This article will examine an intervention used to address self harming behaviours amongst adolescents. Kerfoot (2005) tells us that one of the leading causes of death among young people aged 15-24 in the UK is suicide (page 197). Leading on from this Kerfoot (2005) goes on to explain that cases of deliberate self harm (DSH) (including attempted suicide), among British adolescents is higher than almost all other European countries. Due to these increasing rates of DSH, CAMHS teams in the United Kingdom are finding 20% of their referrals are related to DSH, thus causing them to commit a large amount of time to providing assessment & aftercare for these individuals.

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