An Article On The Journal Of Family Practice - 1654 Words

In June 2015 J. Sloan Manning, MD wrote an article in the Supplement to The Journal of Family Practice where is states that bipolar is linked to many other conditions. People that suffer from bipolar most likely have some other condition that can be liked together. The life style that someone carries can have an impact on them. So it is best to be aware of your surroundings and what is best for each person. Several lifestyle behaviors and risk factors, including sedentary life style(being inactive or seated) , tobacco smoking, and obesity, are recognized as being significantly influential in bipolar symptom progression and functional impairment (J. Sloan Manning, MD, 20145). Certain behaviors that someone does can lead them to have early†¦show more content†¦Sloan Manning, MD, 2015). Even though it is not known what really causes someone to become bipolar, there are other life style choices and activities that can have an impact on someone being bipolar or not. There are man y other conditions that can be associated with bipolar disorder. To help manage one condition the other has to be managed as well. In J. Sloan Manning, MD’s article there is a graph from 2 studies that were done in 2014. The graph is showing how people living with bipolar I and bipolar II have other such conditions that they are struggling with. It is important to get this disorder treated as soon as possible, to lessen the chances of developing another unwanted disorder. Consequently, choice of clinical treatment still occurs largely on the basis of reducing target symptoms (psychosis, depression, mania/hypomania and anxiety), resulting often in use of multiple medical or psychological therapies (Hickie, 2014). To avoid making this diagnosis worse, it is better to get the current symptoms under control as soon as possible. According to Passos, Jansen and Kapczinski, people that have been diagnosed with being bipolar have showed signs of this disorder before they were diagnosed. Certain medical condition can be present before the actual diagnoses such as anxiety. A staging model suggests that the way that bipolar disorder progresses is through a predictable manner with stage appropriate treatments (Passos, Jansen,