Women treated for severe psychiatric conditions including major depression shortly after giving birth were more likely to be diagnosed as bipolar later in life compared to those whose first psychiatric episode happened at any other time, in a new study from Denmark. Researchers said they didn’t know if some postpartum depression or schizophrenia-like episodes were […]
Bipolar Disorder: Caught between depression and excitement John always felt that his wife was ‘changeful’ – but it took both of them years to find out that she was in fact suffering from so-called ‘bipolar disorder’. People with what was formerly called ‘manic depressive disorder’ cycle between unusually intense emotional states that occur in distinct […]
Talking about ‘sex addiction’ in certain Asian cities is like talking about alcoholism during the ‘Oktoberfest’ in Munich: a firework of dirty jokes and winking confessions (‘yes, I’m an addict, too!’) are standard elements of these conversations. However, few people seem to know what sex addiction really is or means. Sexual addiction (sometimes also called […]
Die Bipolare Störung ist eine ernsthafte psychische Erkrankung (früher bekannt als “manisch-depressive Störung”), welche mit Ungleichgewichten im Hirnstoffwechsel in Verbindung steht. Psychotherapie und die Kombination mit der Einnahme von Psychopharmaka können sehr gut dabei helfen, diese Störung besser in den Griff zu bekommen. Die American Academy for Family Physicians empfiehlt deshalb, auch im regulären Alltag […]