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Living with bipolar disorder is a challenge, and dating someone with this illness is a challenge as well. If your boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, or wife is a manic-depressive, here is a guide to help you and your partner build and maintain a healthy relationship. Step 1 First, learn as much as you can about bipolar [...]
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A Healthy Diet: Health tips for Sufferers
Omega 3 Fatty Acids Bipolar disorder is not a condition that is generally considered to have direct nutritional considerations, like diabetes or heart disease. However, recent research has found that omega 3 fatty acids may lessen the symptoms of bipolar disorder. While research is still ongoing, studies have found that they lessen stress and aid [...]
Testimony – I am Bipolar: A Sufferers advice!
Practical Coping Skills For Living With Bipolar Disorder: I have been living with bipolar disorder for a few years now. I keep telling myself it is just in my head. “I am not really bipolar”, they USED to call it manic depression. Something I honestly think sounds better than bipolar. Manic depression explains it much [...]
Reproductive health issues: Evidence
Overview Breastfeeding Medication and conception Overview All four guidelines (BAP, CANMAT, NICE, and SIGN) concur that bipolar disorder has significant implications for reproductive health issues, particularly in relation to the teratogenetic risk caused by the medications being taken for the disorder. The figures published in the BAP guideline about the ‘risk of major congenital malformations’ [...]
Bipolar Disorder: Key Facts
