The Busy Moms’ Guide to Becoming Your Best Self!

The Busy Moms’ Guide to Becoming Your Best Self!

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Trying to figure out how to get your self-care schedule back on track? If you’ve fallen out of the self-care habit during the pandemic, you’re not alone. The constant stress has made it so much harder to stick with healthy, positive routines. Moms, who tend to put everyone before themselves regardless, are even more likely to wind up neglecting self-care. As a result, feeling and looking your best can feel totally out of reach. Fortunately, there are some simple, straightforward self-care tips for moms you can take to get back into your routine and feel like yourself again. Here are some ideas... »

Bipolar Patients could be on the wrong drugs!

Bipolar Patients could be on the wrong drugs!

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A quarter of patients with bipolar disorder are being prescribed drugs which could make their symptoms worse, a new study has claimed. Research led by Glasgow University has found many bipolar patients are on a combination of medication which is out of line with clinical guidelines. The study shows a decline in the first recommended treatment for people with the mental health condition. Experts have described the findings as a “concern”. Lithium prescribed on its own is the recommended first treatment for bipolar disorder. But the study of more than 23,000 patients across Scotland ... »

Mental health trust pays damages over man’s death

Mental health trust pays damages over man’s death

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A mental health trust has paid out damages over the case of a man with bipolar disorder and a history of lighting fires who was trapped in a blaze at his cluttered tower block flat. Bob Crane, 61, a well-known character in the Stokes Croft area of Bristol, had been cooking on open fires at his seventh-floor council flat for more than a year because his electricity had been cut off. Concerns were repeatedly raised that Crane was putting himself and his neighbours at risk, but he died of smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide poisoning after his cooking fire got out of control. Crane’s son, Alex, ... »

Mood Stabilisers – An Effective Option for Older Adults

Mood Stabilisers – An Effective Option for Older Adults

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Two standard medications for bipolar disorder were effective in controlling symptoms at doses tailored to older people in a clinical trial of treatment in adults over age 60. The findings are an important step towards filling an existing gap in evidence-based guidance for treatment of bipolar disorder in older adults. People with bipolar disorder experience marked shifts in mood and energy; manic episodes are a hallmark of the illness. Mania is associated with severe disability and can be life-threatening. The disorder affects an estimated 2.6 percent of Americans, including older adults. Whil... »

A Short History of Bipolar

A Short History of Bipolar

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The terms used for the bipolar extremes, ‘melancholy’ (depression) and ‘mania’ both have their origins in Ancient Greek. ‘Melancholy’ derives from melas ‘black’ and chole ‘bile’, because Hippocrates thought that depression resulted from an excess of black bile. ‘Mania’ is related to menos ‘spirit, force, passion’; mainesthai ‘to rage, go mad’; and mantis ‘seer’, and ultimately derives from the Indo-European root men- ‘mind’ to which, interestingly, ‘man’ is also sometimes connected. (‘Depression’, the clinical term for melancholy, is much more recent in origin and derives from the Latin deprim... »