How many does Bipolar affect?

To date Bipolar affects nearly 2 million Americans. Bipolar typically begins in adolescent or early adult life, and continues throughout life. Though it may start at a young age it isn't all ways thought of first. You could have had bipolar for years before it was diagnosed properly. Early diagnoses and treatment of Bipolar can lessen or remove some of these risks:

Suicide
Alcohol/drug abuse
Problems at school
Failing out of school
Divorce
Not being able to function at work
Alienating oneself from friends and family

Can Bipolar be inherited?

Bipolar can be inherited. The estimated inheritability is between 50 and 80%. Even with these numbers someone with Bipolar can have children that don’t have it. The genetic determinates of bipolar are not specific.

Treatments

Bipolar can be treated with medication and psychotherapy. Because of newer and better drugs people with Bipolar can hope for better care. Even though medication is getting better, getting someone with bipolar the care they need is becoming a big problem. Insurance doesn’t want to cover someone that is going to cost them a ton of money and someone with bipolar can not hope to cover the cost on there own. Also as someone with bipolar starts to feel better they can tend to stop taking there medication, NO one wants to be dependent on medication for the rest of there life.

Links To Family info and more!!

The day-to-day job of managing bipolar falls on the person with bipolar. To learn how as a family member or friend can help click below:

NEVER TRY TO DEAL WITH BIPOLAR ALONE IT TAKES THE CARE OF A DOCTOR, MEDICATION (SOMETIMES) AND THE LOVE AND SUPPORT OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS!!!!!

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