If you experience bursts of energy and enthusiasm followed by severe bouts of depression, you may have bipolar disorder. This is a dangerous condition that too often goes untreated. It's best to see a doctor experienced in diagnosing and treating bipolar disorder. First, find out if you have the condition. Second, get the treatment you need before you face unwanted consequences. If you have been searching for "bipolar doctors near me," check out Online Psychiatrists. Dr. Ivanov is an award-winning online psychiatrist who works with bipolar disorder in New York, New Jersey, and Florida and offers confidential and convenient online appointments through telepsychiatry. Call today.
Previously known as manic depression, bipolar disorder encompasses a wide variety of mood swings, from significant sadness, known as bipolar depression, to extreme euphoria, called mania or hypomania. Your mood swings may occur occasionally, or they may cycle several times a year rapidly. Understanding these extreme mood swings is essential to safely navigate and control your mood and keep it from interfering with your daily life.
While a qualified psychiatrist can diagnose the condition at any age, most noticeable symptoms appear in your late teens or early twenties. Online Psychiatrists experienced bipolar specialist near you in NY, FL, and NJ successfully manages the condition with a bipolar disorder treatment plan that usually includes:
Understanding your specific condition by focusing on your unique symptoms allows your bipolar doctors to tailor a successful treatment plan. The best treatment for bipolar disorder for you takes into account your diagnosis.
The types of bipolar disorder include:
While your mood swings may be extreme, you still may not seek treatment for some time. The feelings of euphoria can be so pleasant that you may not even want to control them. The most dangerous complications result when the high feelings of euphoria are followed by severe lows.
Consequences range from poor work performance to financial or legal problems. Damaged relationships, substance abuse and even suicide attempts aren’t uncommon. There’s hope.
Effective bipolar depression treatments include:
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Severe mood swings can become dangerous, as prolonged feelings of depression can lead to self-harm, substance abuse and even suicide. At the same time, prolonged mania affects your sleep, judgment and the ability to think clearly. Either extreme disrupts your life.
Connect with a specialized psychiatrist at Online Psychiatrists to screen for biological causes of your mood swings.
Symptoms that an experienced psychotherapist recognizes when diagnosing bipolar disorder include:
Bipolar disorders are complicated, but they’re manageable with proper education, medication and support from an expert in the field. Contact Online Psychiatrists in NYC, NJ & Fl, where you’ll find both in-person opportunities for specialized bipolar treatment and telepsychiatry options that allow you to begin your treatment as soon as possible. Weekend and after-hour appointments are available.
Mood shift frequency varies from person to person. A small number of patients may have many episodes within one day, shifting from mania (an episode where a person is very high-spirited or irritable) to depression. This has been described as “ultra-rapid cycling.”
Not necessarily. Studies have shown that approximately 10 percent of patients have a single episode only. However, the majority of patients have more than one. The number of episodes within a patient’s lifetime varies. Some individuals may have only two or three within their lifetime while others may have the same number within a single year. Frequency of episodes depends on many factors including the natural course of the condition as well as on appropriate treatment. Not taking medication or taking it incorrectly are frequent causes of episode recurrence.
Although it is possible that during the natural course of the illness individual patients may get well without any medication, the challenge is that it is impossible to identify or determine beforehand who those fortunate patients are. Although some patients don’t get well or just have partial response to the best available treatments, on average — and for the vast majority of patients — the benefits of medications outweigh the risks.
The term “mixed episode” was changed to “mixed features” in the last edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5) published by the American Psychiatric Association in 2013. The new term may apply to either episodes of mania with additional symptoms of depression or the opposite, episodes of depression with additional symptoms of mania. The overall idea is that the presence of both mania and depression can exist at the same time. Symptoms of mania include elated mood, decreased need to sleep or racing thoughts. Symptoms of depression can include depressed mood, and feelings of hopelessness or worthlessness.
It is possible for children to have bipolar disorder. This mental illness occurs in approximately 1 to 3 percent of the general population, and studies have shown that bipolar disorder has a genetic component. However it is also possible for bipolar disorder to appear in someone who has no family history of the disease.
Outcomes are always better when there is a strong family support network. Think of bipolar disorder as any other severe medical condition. However, also note that in many severe psychiatric conditions, patients may not be aware that they are ill. They may minimize the severity of their condition. The result of these factors may be that patients will not follow through on their treatment. In very severe cases, there may be instances of a lack of behavioral control where family members may not be able to look after their loved ones. In those cases, assistance from providers or even law enforcement agents may be necessary.
Dr. Zlatin Ivanov, MD, is an adult psychiatrist specializing in addiction treatment, ADHD, anxiety, depression, and OCD. He offers exceptional talk therapy and medication management through online video conferencing.
Dr. Ivanov is double board certified in Psychiatry and Clinical Neurology and a member of the American Psychiatric Association. His medical career is colored by many outstanding contributions to medicine, including several publications, research, and scientific presentations. An attending psychiatrist at Woodhull Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY, and Bellevue Hospital Center in New York City, he takes the time to listen to patients and makes sure they know he is committed to their unique situation.
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