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Article: Calming the roller coaster ride of mood swings. (manic-depressive psychoses, includes related information)
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- FDA Consumer
- Article date:
- November 1, 1988
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Calming the Roller Coaster Ride of Mood Swings
Today, lithium and other medicines are largely successful in treating bipolar disorder, which the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) estimates afflicts more than 2 million Americans. Also suffering, not always silently, are family members and sometimes friends and business acquaintances who, as in Don Brogan's case, must endure the extravagant ups and melancholy downs of the bipolar disorder patient.
Bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness and mood swing, is an inherited ailment that most often remains latent until young adulthodd. In fact, some who have the aberrant gene never ...