always healthy-Bipolar disorder is a psychiatric illness characterized by an extreme change of mood. Symptoms of bipolar disorder consist of two major episodes of mood elasi called beads and mood depression. Because there is depression, sometimes people with bipolar disorder get a false diagnosis of major depression.
When diagnosed with depression, drug therapy used is the administration of antidepressants. Though antidepressant drugs are not the right drug for bipolar disorder and will actually worsen the condition.
Nurmiati Amir, a psychiatrist from the Department of Psychiatry FKUI / RSCM, said, if antidepressants are given to people with bipolar disorder it will trigger a manic episode. "Major depression drugs with different bipolar disorder, so people with bipolar disorder will not show a good response if given the wrong drug," he said last week in Jakarta.
If the use of antidepressants continues, there will be a rapid cycle between manic episodes and depression or so-called rapid cycling. A person with bipolar disorder is said to experience rapid cycling if he experiences at least four cycles a year. A one-off cycle is meant for switching between manic episodes and depression.
Incorrect diagnosis of bipolar disorder usually occurs because the episode that is often found at the beginning is depression. Even this episode can happen repeatedly before the manic episode appears. Especially in women.
The drugs used for bipolar disorder are the mood stabilizer drugs. The work of this drug is to suppress mood changes between the bead and depression.
Mood stabilizer drugs include, among others, minerals such as lithium, and anti-convulsant. So far only these drugs have had an impact on the treatment of bipolar disorder. According to Nurmiati, there are no herbal medicines to overcome bipolar disorder.
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