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Overall smoking rates in Indiana and across the nation are on the decline, but not for people with psychiatric illnesses. If you are a smoker and are under treatment for depression, anxiety, ADHD, bipolar or another mental disorder or addiction, ditching your cigarettes could not only add years to your life it could improve your mental health. Twenty-two percent of adults have a psychiatric disorder, yet they consume 45 percent of cigarettes smoked in the U.S., said Dr. Eric Heiligenstei
September 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Tobacco use an important part of case assessment
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Treating Manic Depressive Disorder: A Joint Venture
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The collection of related illnesses known as manic depressive disorder (or manic depression or bipolar disorder) is characterized predominantly by swings between highly elevated moods (known as mania) and severely depressed moods. But because the permutations of the disorder can vary (rapid cycling between those extremes versus slower cycling, for example), its often difficult to find the best treatments. In fact, finding a therapist who knows a great deal about this disorder is probably the fi
September 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Depression and Bipolar Results Worth Striving For – A New Recovery Model For Mental Illness
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Bipolar Relationships
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For those who have bipolar disorder, they tend to have issues with their mood swings and the way that they feel about their life and how they look or feel. When it comes to getting medicated or treated for the disorder, you will most likely get on lithium. Lithium will help you in different ways. First, you will find that it will mange all of the side effects that you may have from the disorder. Then it will help you to avoid having manic depression periods. It is still not known what exactl
September 24, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Diagnosing And Treating Bipolar Children
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Its only been in recent years that the psychiatric profession has even recognized that there could be bipolar children. The accepted wisdom was always that bipolar disorder, or manic depression, only developed in adults. This was despite evidence from early researchers that some adult symptoms had in fact emerged before they were ten years old. But the result of this assumption was that manic depression treatment methods were always geared explicitly toward adults. It wasnt easy to find any so