What disease is bipolar disorder? What caused it?

Bipolar disorder is also called manic depression, or simply bipolar disorder. Bipolar disorder, as its name implies, patients with mania and depression often appear repeatedly or alternately, or they can be mixed. During the onset of depression, it is characterized by depression, slow thinking, strenuous thinking, decreased interest activities, pessimism, low self-evaluation, memory loss, poor diet and poor sleep. When manic, the patient's mood is high, thinking escapes, and his will and behavior are enhanced. There is no motivation to talk too much, increase appetite, reduce sleep, be tireless, and be in high spirits. The above two situations appear alternately, each lasting more than half a month, which affects daily life and work and study. So bipolar disorder is hidden, sometimes just like normal people, but besides excitement, it also hides suicidal tendencies, which must be highly valued by family members.

The warning is that there will be one or several depressive episodes before manic episodes, which can be mastered. For such patients, there are five things to do:

1, encouraging patients to receive scientific and reasonable treatment.

2, with diet and exercise to improve resistance. Patients should cooperate with proper exercise on the basis of active drug treatment to ensure normal sleep.

3. Keep a relaxed attitude. Relaxing patients' mood, focusing on work, study or life as much as possible, and actively receiving treatment will not only improve rapidly, but also make the prognosis difficult to recur.

4. Create an venting environment for patients. Doctors should care, be sympathetic and listen quietly to let patients know that their pain has been accepted by society;

5. Spiritual support from family and friends can change patients' bad cognition, improve their adaptability and improve interpersonal relationships.

What does bipolar disorder mean? What caused it?

It is generally believed that there is no single cause of bipolar disorder. On the contrary, there may be many factors that cause diseases or increase risks.

Brain structure and function: Studies have proved that the brains of patients with bipolar disorder are different from those of healthy people or other mental patients. With the in-depth understanding of these differences and new information of genetic research, scientists can better understand bipolar disorder and predict which treatments can achieve the greatest effect.

Genes: Studies show that people with certain genes are more likely to suffer from bipolar disorder than others.

However, genes are not the only risk of bipolar disorder. Studies on identical twins show that although all the genes of identical twins are the same, even if one of them has bipolar disorder, the other does not necessarily have this disease.

Family history: Bipolar disorder usually runs in the family. If parents or siblings suffer from bipolar disorder, children are more likely to suffer from this disease. However, it must be noted that most people with a family history of bipolar disorder will not suffer from this disease.

What is the cause of bipolar disorder?

Bipolar disorder, also known as bipolar disorder, refers to an emotional disorder in which patients have manic or hypomanic episodes and depressive episodes.

Like other psychological and emotional diseases, medicine has not fully clarified the cause of this disease.

There are three main clinical manifestations of bipolar disorder: one is depressive episode; Second, the opposite state is manic episode; The third is a mixed episode of depression and mania.

Depression means depression and even suicidal tendency; When manic attacks occur, the spirit is excited and difficult to suppress; There are two manifestations of mixed epilepsy, which are relatively rare in clinic.

Bipolar disorder may not heal itself, at least there is no precedent at present. Although the disease is characterized by recurrent attacks, most patients' symptoms can be relieved after the attack, but if no formal treatment is carried out, the intermittent period of the disease attack will gradually shorten and the severity will gradually increase. Therefore, bipolar disorder must go to the psychiatric department for formal treatment.