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What is bipolar spectrum? Will it become bipolar 1 or bipolar 2?
Today's video is about bipolar spectrum illness and is based on a viewer question from Saddam. He asks if his diagnosis of bipolar spectrum will later become bipolar 1 or bipolar 2 disorder. The short answer is that here in the US...
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What is Schizoaffective Disorder- Is It Worse Than Bipolar Disorder?
Schizoaffective disorder as a combination of schizophrenia and a mood disorder either bipolar disorder or depression. Where does the term affective come from? In psychology there’s a concept called the ABC’s of the psychology. It divides...
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What is Mixed Mania and How Do We Treat It?
What is Mixed Mania and How Do We Treat It? The official term for mixed mania is bipolar disorder either 1 or 2 with mixed features. With bipolar 1 disorder, you have episodes of depression and episodes of mania. With bipolar 2, you have...
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What is Kleptomania? Is Part of Bipolar Disorder?
Kleptomania is an impulse control disorder that requires 5 criteria according to the Diagnostics and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5th edition. 1. Recurrent failure to resist impulses to steal objects that are not needed for...
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What Is Intermittent Explosive Disorder? Is It Just Being Angry?
What is intermittent explosive disorder and what we do about it? This video is based on a several viewer questions. Some of the questions were around distinguishing it from bipolar disorder. Others asked me to to talk about it because...
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What is Cyclothymia? – How is it different from bipolar disorder?
What is cyclothymia and how is it different from Bipolar disorder? In this video I compare the symptoms of bipolar disorder versus cyclothymic disorder, discuss when it starts and whether or not it turns into bipolar disorder. In short,...
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Three Signs Your Mania Is Coming (The Manic Prodrome)
What are the early signs that you're getting ready to have a manic episode? We call these early signs the prodrome. Being able to detect early signs of a manic episode can be helpful in either preventing the episode or lessening the...
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The Three Best Herbs To Fight Depression
Did you know that many medications are derived from plants? For example, salicin from willow bark is the basis for aspirin, and valeric acid from valerian root is chemically modified to make Valproic acid, which psychiatrists use to...
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Unipolar Mania | Can you Be Manic and Never Depressed?
Bipolar disorder is a disorder where you have reoccurring episodes of depression or mania. Because these mood states are opposite in nature and say they have opposite polarity. It’s like a magnetic pole that has opposite ends of...
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The Surprising Triggers of Mania: When It’s NOT Bipolar Disorder
Many people with bipolar disorder know their triggers, but what about those who experience mania with no diagnosis? In this video, we explore the surprising and sometimes overlooked causes of mania and how they can be detected and managed.
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Springtime Mania - 3 Ways to Prevent It
As we move from winter to spring into summer, we get longer days and more exposure to sunlight. As such, you may notice your mood ramping up. But it’s not how much light you're exposed to, it’s the rapid change in light that makes the...
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Rapid Cycling Bipolar and Ultra rapid Cycling and Ultradian. Why Does it Happen?
Rapid cycling is called a course specifier. It’s not a separate diagnosis, instead It used to describe the course of the illness. The rapid cycling specifier is added if you have 4 or more episodes of either depression, mania or...
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Medications You Don't Want to Take with Food - And Those You Do
Food has varying effects on your medications. They can Reduce how much of the medicine is absorbed, they can INCREASE how much is absorbed or they can delay when the medication is absorbed. Reduced absorption means you don't get as much...
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Lithium vs. Antipsychotics: The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Lithium
Explore the journey of lithium, a game-changer in the late 1940s, as it transformed the treatment landscape for bipolar disorder. Join Dr. Tracey Marks, a dedicated psychiatrist, in this deep dive into the historical prominence of...
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Is Bipolar Disorder On The Rise?
Epidemiologic studies that look at prevalence rates estimate bipolar disorder to exist in about 2-4% of the US population. That's small compared to unipolar depression that's around 10 to 12%. The peak age of onset is between ages 20-30....
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Hypersexuality in Bipolar Disorder - Why Does It Happen?
Bipolar hypersexuality is a common symptom during the manic phase. The hypersexuality symptoms can look like having sex outside of an exclusive relationship, sex with multiple partners or sex with strangers. But it doesn't have to mean...
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ADHD Vs Bipolar Disorder - How To Tell The Difference
With ADHD and bipolar disorder you can have trouble thinking, be hyperactive, feel disorganized etc. That’s how the symptoms overlap. This video I discussed how these two disorders can be distinguished from each other. I discuss how they...
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Do Depressed People Need More Sleep? How To Do Wake Therapy
Do depressed people need to sleep more? It would seem so, but when a depressed person stays awake, their depression resolves. The problem is it’s very temporary until the person goes back to sleep. Researchers have found that you can...
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Dark Therapy for Bipolar Disorder - How and Why it Works
What is something you can do for your mania that doesn’t involve medication? I’ve talked in a previous video about using bright light therapy for bipolar disorder. But this would be for the depressed phase of the illness. You wouldn’t...
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Cluster B personality disorders - Are They Actually Mental Illness?
Are personality disorders mental illness? A Personality disorder is a pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates from the expectations of a person's culture. Although these patterns of behavior are considered disorders in the...
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Classic Bipolar vs Atypical Bipolar - How To Tell The Difference
Bipolar disorder can present in two very distinct ways. There is, a classic or textbook presentation and non-classic or atypical presentation. These are not official subtypes of bipolar disorder that you will find in the diagnostic...
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Can You Stop Your Bipolar Medication? – Maybe Here’s How
Bipolar disorder is a serious mental illness that involves recurring episodes of depression and either hypomania or mania. It normally requires medication to treat the acute episodes as well as keep them from coming back once they...
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Can You Have Bipolar Disorder + Borderline Personality? |Here’s Why It Matters
Can you have bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder at the same time? I've been asked this question several times and the answer is yes. In fact, some people will refer to this as borderpolar. This isn’t an official term...