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Last Updated: February 13th, 2012
The answer here is both yes and no. There are many things that one can do to help smooth out mood instability. These entail consistent healthy sleep hygiene, regular exercise, good diet, abstaining from psychoactive substance use, and adherence to regular daily structure, developing effective stress management
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There isn’t a simple answer here as the specific treatment has everything to do with one’s unique mood patterns and the acuity of one’s bipolar symptoms. And these will be different and unique to each individual. That said if we were looking at the most common treatment elements, they would usually begin
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The treatment of mixed states is not that different from the treatment of more clearly differentiated mood states (depressed mood and elevated mood). The primary difference is that some of the more widely used mood stabilizers, which are used for individuals who suffer with more predominant depressive
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Treatment effectiveness has everything to do with symptom acuity, treatment compliance and the presence (or absence) of healthy lifestyle practices. Where symptoms are recurrently in the more severe range of acuity, then treatment “effectiveness” will be more difficult to achieve. Conversely where symptoms are
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