GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) - Sunday is World Bipolar Awareness Day. It aims to raise awareness about the disorder, and reduce the stigma surrounding mental health According to the American ...

Do you have bipolar disorder and want to become pregnant or are pregnant already? Perhaps you have bipolar disorder and do not want a pregnancy. Be sure to talk with both your obstetrician and ...

There are two types of bipolar disorder bipolar 1 disorder and bipolar 2 disorder. Bipolar 1 disorder is characterized by moods vacillating between depression and mania. With bipolar 2 disorder, moods ...

World Bipolar Day is celebrated each year on March 30th, the birthday of Vincent Van Gogh, who was posthumously diagnosed as having bipolar disorder. World Bipolar Day takes place on 30 March each ...

Our award-winning bpHope Blog is a collection of posts written with heartfelt honesty by a group of bloggers from around the world, with each providing their own unique perspectives on living with ...

The energy of mania or hypomania can be tempting, but stability offers more. Here’s how to choose it — and why it’s worth it with bipolar disorder. Hypomania — and even mania — has a certain allure, ...

Bipolar disorder is a mood disorder that includes at least one manic episode – characterized by elevated or agitated mood and often reduced need for sleep – accompanied by episodes of major ...

Danny Evans (left) lives with bipolar disorder and is a presenter in the “In Our Own Voice” program with the Minnesota chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). He poses for a ...

These medicines differ in the types of bipolar symptoms they treat. Depakote and Tegretol, for example, tend to be more effective in treating mania than depressive symptoms while Lamictal appears ...

Bipolar disorder, a leading cause of global disability, disrupts relationships, careers and daily life while shortening lifespans by over a decade. Dr. Sneha Sharma, a consultant psychiatrist and drug ...