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The current selection of treatment options for bipolar personality disorder is reasonably wide. It ranges from medicines of various types to psychotherapeutic interventions. Bipolar patients usually receive some or a mix of antipsychotics, mood stabilizers and antidepressants. Lamictal is a medication that is a calming solution for overexcited nerves. One should carefully follow medical instructions […]

Unlike psychotic episodes characteristic for other types of disorders, in schizophrenia, psychotic episodes last up to 6 months. Typically, schizophrenia’s episode includes 3 phases with a prodrome phase lasting from a couple of weeks to a month. This phase is a starting phase preceding the psychosis. It shows a couple of symptoms indicating psychosis’ advent. […]

Self-harm or so-called Non-Suicidal Self-Injury is not a rare situation. Do you know that up to 10% of young people experienced self-injury at least once[1]? The causes for self-harm are diverse, they relate to multiple aspects as follows: Physical reasons; Low self-esteem; Social-related problems; Psychological reasons; Mental health issues. Yet the result is still the […]

Post-traumatic stress disorder occurs in an estimated 3.9% of the global population, WHO says [1]. Traumatic experiences lead to this mental health impairment and the sufferings from PTSD can be almost unbearable. Typically, the results of PTSD relate to mental symptoms like changes in behavior, nightmares, bad sleep, anxiety issues or flashbacks which drown you […]

Lamictal is the brand name for the medication lamotrigine. Its main goal is to treat epilepsies and bipolar disorders to prevent future depressive episodes. The medication works by calming overactive nerves in the body. Its undoubted advantage is having fewer side effects compared to other drugs of its class. Lamictal entered the US market in […]

Marital crisis often results in traumatic events following the divorce process. Men and women come through divorces with various efficiency and usually divorce processes summon non-adaptive responses from a person. Previously, psychologists referred to divorce PTSD, but today the term post-divorce trauma is more typical to describe the lack of adaptivity in people who passed […]

Bupropion, released as Wellbutrin, was synthesized by American chemist Nariman Mehta in 1969. Over the years, its unique antidepressant properties were revealed. It resulted in its legal permission of use in 1985 in the USA. Wellbutrin is in great demand, with more than 25 million packages of this medicine sold in the United States in […]

For over half of the century, scientists had no evidence for the comorbidity between schizophrenia and early blindness. Some medical experts even claim congenital blindness has a protective impact and prevents schizophrenia. Scientists believe that such a phenomenon occurs due to the sensual compensation that people with CB develop. They have advanced attention, memory, and […]

Bipolar disorder is characterized by regular mood swings and since its onset, patients experience them in various severity. Ups and downs follow each other and, according to their severity, there are three main types of BPD – namely, BPD 1, BPD 2, and cyclothymic bipolar disorder. Although the start of BPD may occur in adulthood, […]