There are many mental illnesses that can affect the human in various stages of his life, and be in the form of crises and temporary disorders, disappear with appropriate treatment and attention to mental health. Or in the form of a patient that accompanies the individual for a long period of his life, and often can not treat the psychological diseases that have been in the human since birth due to physical problems or fetal abnormalities occurred during pregnancy or because of the genetic factor and is one of the most important factors harmful to chronic mental illness .
Bipolar disorder is one of the mental disorders that can affect a person at any stage of his life, and the rates of infection are equal between males and females. Bipolar disorder is a form of depression. It takes a manic form characterized by periods of excessive depression followed by periods of unwarranted and exaggerated gratification, in which the person performs reckless and irresponsible acts. The statistics indicate that those who do very specialized work and cause a high degree of physical and psychological fatigue, such as artists and scientists are more vulnerable to the disease.
The diagnosis of this disease is through suspicion first and then the second observation, where the patient has a bout of acute depression immediately followed by a bout of abnormal exhilaration as mentioned, and the symptoms of the attacks and their degree varies by type of disease. It should be noted that these seizures should not be the result of other factors such as physical diseases or side effects of drugs, and that these attacks negatively affect the social life of the person and prevent him from exercising his life normally. Bipolar disorder can cause the patient to think of suicide. The proportion of those who have tried to commit suicide is one in three, and the suicide rate among those with bipolar disorder is 18 per 25 patients.
There are several methods of treatment used with this disease, vary between mood stabilizers, and it prevents the occurrence of seizures and the addition of drugs to treat depression, but cautiously. There are also behavioral and cognitive therapies, treatment of family planning, as well as ECT in severe cases or in women during pregnancy because drugs can affect the fetus.