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Free to fly: a story of manic depression
- Author:
- KWOK Caroline Fei-Yeng
- Publisher:
- Inclusion Press
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 221p.
- Place of publication:
- Toronto
The author has had first hand experience with mental illness and has put that experience into words so that everyone can benefit. She describes her difficult times, her treatments and her mis-treatments. She also describes her recovery. The inner world of someone with bipolar disorder, stigmas associated with mental disorders, strengths and weaknesses of the mental health care system, and importance of cultural factors in mental health are told in a vivid manner.
Using group work to prevent relapse in bipoloar disorder
- Authors:
- DOUGLAS Kevin, LOMAX Ken, HEALL Jan
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 8.5.07, 2007, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
This article outlines the principles and ideas behind a group intervention aimed at managing bipoloar disorder. It looks specifically at the implementation of one group work intervention which included the involvement of a service user as a group facilitator.
Lithium and risk for Alzheimer's disease in elderly patients with bipolar disorder
- Authors:
- NUNES Paula V., FORLENZA Orestes V., GATTAZ Wagner F.
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 190(4), April 2007, pp.359-360.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Bipolar disorder is associated with increased risk for dementia. The authors compared the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease between 66 elderly euthymic patients with bipolar disorder who were on chronic lithium therapy and 48 similar patients without recent lithium therapy. The prevalence of dementia in the whole sample was 19% v. 7% in an age-comparable population. Alzheimer's disease was diagnosed in 3 patients (5%) on lithium and in 16 patients (33%) who were not on lithium.The case–control data suggest that lithium treatment reduced the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease in patients with bipolar disorder to levels in the general elderly population. This is in accordance with reports that lithium inhibits crucial processes in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease.
Outside, barely looking in
- Author:
- -
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.3.07, 2007, pp.36-37.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
A practice panel advises on the case of a man with bipoloar disorder who resigned from his job on health grounds, and now feels a social outcast.
Coalition of the caring
- Author:
- HOPKINS Graham
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 15.02.07, 2007, pp.38-39.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
This article reports on the case of a social worker working with a middle-aged man with bipolar affective disorder as the client's life fell apart. The case shows how an alliance with t-he man's advocate proved crucial to recovery.
Beryl's journey
- Authors:
- ALPHA FILMS, (Producer), IZZARD Beryl, (Author)
- Publisher:
- Alpha Films
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- (12 mins.), DVD
- Place of publication:
- Ipswich
In this short film we meet Beryl, a poet who has written about her experiences of life with bipolar disorder. Through readings of eight of her poems, and her commentaries on each of them, we learn how it feels to be high, low, and out of control, and what has helped and hindered when she's been unwell.
Sustained attention and executive functions in euthymic young people with bipolar disorder
- Authors:
- KOLUR U. S., et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 189(5), November 2006, pp.453-458.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Persistent neuropsychological impairments have been reported in the euthymic phase of bipolar affective disorder. However, the findings have been confounded by multiple episodes, chronic illness and residual mood symptoms. The aim was to assess sustained attention and executive functioning in euthymic young people with bipolar I disorder who had had no more than two affective episodes. Thirty euthymic patients (with illness duration of less than 5 years and no more than two affective episodes) and 30 matched healthy individuals were assessed for sustained attention and executive functioning. The bipolar group (mean age 22.4 years, s.d.=2.52; duration of illness 20.87 months, s.d.=14.72), showed impairment on tasks of attention and executive functioning. Multivariate logistic regression analysis demonstrated that deficits in executive functioning differentiated cases from controls. There was no correlation between residual depressive symptoms and neuropsychological performance. Deficits in attention and executive functioning were present in young people who had experienced only a few episodes of bipolar disorder, suggesting that the deficits are possibly trait abnormalities. Whether these deficits worsen with progression of illness needs to be examined in longitudinal studies.
Culture and assessment of manic symptoms
- Authors:
- MACKIN Paul, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 189(4), October 2006, pp.379-380.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Cultural background may influence the perception of psychiatric symptoms. We examined the effects of cultural biases on the identification of manic symptoms using the Young Mania Rating Scale. Two video interviews, each with an American person with mania, were shown to psychiatrists from three countries (US, UK and India). Total scores on the scale differed significantly between the US and UK (P<0.001) and between India and UK (P<0.001) rater groups. Overall, differences between India and US rater groups were less marked (P=0.28). These differences suggest that cultural biases influence the interpretation of manic symptoms
Cognitive impairment in bipolar II disorder
- Authors:
- TORRENT Carla, et al
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 189(3), September 2006, pp.254-259.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Persistent impairments in neurocognitive function have been described in bipolar disorder. The aim was to compare the cognitive performance of patients with bipolar II disorder with that of patients with bipolar I disorder and a healthy control group. The study included 71 euthymic patients with bipolar disorder (38 bipolar I, 33 bipolar II), who were compared on clinical and neuropsychological variables (e.g. executive function, attention, verbal and visual memory) and contrasted with 35 healthy controls on cognitive performance. Compared with controls, both bipolar groups showed significant deficits in most cognitive tasks including working memory (DigitSpan Backwards, P=0.002) and attention (DigitSpan Forwards, P=0.005; Trail Making Test, P=0.001). Those with type II disorders had an intermediate level of performance between the bipolar I group and the control group in verbal memory (P<0.005) and executive functions. Cognitive impairment exists in both subtypes of bipolar disorder, although more so in the bipolar I group. The best predictors of poor psychosocial functioning in bipolar II disorder were subclinical depressive symptoms, early onset of illness and poor performance on a measure related to executive function
Living without marbles
- Author:
- HILL Clare
- Publisher:
- Chipmunkapublishing
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 38p.
- Place of publication:
- Brentwood
This book is intended to provide an insight into what it is like living with mental health problems, from the perspective of the sufferer. There are true stories, a commentary throughout the book by a manic depressive and poetry. It is difficult to explain to friends, carers or health professionals the way it actually feels to have a mental illness. This book may help by giving people a clearer understanding.