Bipolar: Episodes Can Change
Published: Wed, 09/03/14
Hi ,
How are you doing today?
I hope you're having a great day.
Did you ever have a time in your life when things
were going along a certain way...
But then all of a sudden things changed?
For example:
You had plans for a certain career...
But then found yourself in a totally different career
than the one you had foreseen yourself in?
Or...
Had you imagined marrying a certain type of person...
But found yourself instead married to a completely
different type of person than the one you imagined you
would marry?
These are just examples.
But you get what I mean.
The thing is...
We can't plan for every eventuality in life.
Sometimes, no matter what we do...
The unexpected happens.
Things change.
And there's nothing we can do to help that.
There's something important you need to know about
bipolar disorder, in case your doctor didn't tell you...
Bipolar disorder can change.
There are different kinds of bipolar disorder, as I go over
in my courses/systems below:
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And you can be diagnosed with one type of bipolar
disorder, but as you get older, you can actually end up
with a different type of bipolar.
Here's a case study:
Sylvia had bipolar disorder for most of her life, but wasn't
diagnosed with it until she was older. When she went into
bipolar episodes, she always went into manic episodes,
though. She never experienced the bipolar depressions
she heard so much about.
However, when she was well into her 60's, Sylvia experienced
a bipolar depressive episode that thoroughly confused her,
since she had never had one before. It was a particularly
bad one, where she couldn't even get out of bed for three
weeks.
When she eventually came out of it, she asked her psychiatrist
about it, and he said that since she was older now, her bipolar
disorder had changed. They went over her triggers and found
out that, in fact, her age did have something to do with her
depression.
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Here's the thing about aging and bipolar disorder.
As you get older, there are other issues that affect you other
than just your bipolar disorder, but that can contribute to a
bipolar episode.
For one thing...
You've heard of "senior moments," right?
Where you start to have memory problems as you get
older?
Some people do get depressed over that issue.
Another thing that can lead to depression in older adults
is not being able to do the things they used to do just
because of the aging process itself.
At first there can be a sense of denial, and they might still
try to do those things...
But then get frustrated when they find that they can no longer
do them.
There might even be some anger before there is the inevitable
acceptance.
Or they might experience depression, especially if they have
bipolar disorder.
The "Empty Nest Syndrome" can contribute to a bipolar
depressive episode, too.
As children get older and leave home, your role changes, and
that can cause problems, even making you depressed if it's
hard for you to accept the new change and the fact that your
children (and you) are getting older.
Physical illnesses beset older people more frequently as well,
and that can be a cause for depression.
There are normal things like high blood pressure and high
cholesterol that older people have to contend with...
But there is also the fear of stroke and heart attack as well.
All these things can combine to give a person with bipolar
disorder the risk of having a bipolar depressive episode
even if they've never had one before.
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Well, I have to go!
Your Friend,
Dave
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