Bipolarism in Family

mcelvain · Newbie Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 20

Hello! I have Bipolarism in Family my elder sister is recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder, she actually suffer from some mix of mania and depression and is now taking antidepressant. I want to know what I can expect is she going to recover totally from bipolarism and just in case if it reoccurs what I could do for her to feel better.

arabella · Silver Member Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 278

You’ll have to try to understand her condition for having Bipolarism in Family is not easy, you must be very patient to cope with this. First I have to notice you’ve mentioned she’s taking antidepressants, maybe you missed to say if she’s taking some other medications and if it’s not the case than I strongly recommend that you reconsider this with her psychiatrist for the person with bipolarism needs to be prescribed with mood –stabilizing medications that will manage their manic depression episodes at lower levels and in some cases will significantly reduce the symptoms during episodes. I also have Bipolarism in Family and I know for sure that these mood-stabilizing medications needs to be taken on long run terms, and my advice would be that your sister keeps on taking them for a long period of time for bipolarism is recurrent and that means that is unknown yet that someone once diagnosed with bipolar disorder has been cured for life. no, it’s a type of disease that needs to be controlled constantly by the psychiatric and you might also be of help here you may for example keep charts on her behaviors, feeling, emotion changing and even sleeping patterns. These notes would also be of help to her doctor in making her further treatment plan. You might also help her to develop her social and daily activities and also she needs to have regular sleeping and daily schedule and you’ll see this kind of things could help her lot regarding her manic-depressive episodes.

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