Archive for June, 2010
Are There Bipolar Medication Treatment Options?
Treating bipolar disease is usually accomplished through a bipolar medication such as antidepressants, anticonvulsants and antipsychotic meds used in combination or alone. Such medications may also be coupled with psychotherapy to provide optimum results.
Because bipolar disorder, also known as bipolar disease or depression, is so difficult to identify and treat, it’s important to know that the disease can strike any gender or age group. Normal high and low moments are experienced on a daily basis by millions of Americans every day, but bipolar disorder takes such feelings to an extreme. Ongoing and recurring episodes of both depression and happiness are often the first signs of the disorder, coupled with extreme feelings on both ends of the spectrum.
Mood stabilizing agents are the most common types of bipolar medication treatments. Antidepressants such as Lithium, Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil and Valium are used to treat various levels of depression and offer mood-stabilizing benefits, though in some cases, they can cause mania. For more severe episodes, Haldol or Thorazine are used to control mania. However, such drugs as Haldol and Thorazine, known as neuroeptics, can cause side effects such as muscle spasms, difficulty speaking and tremors.
Lithium is the most commonly prescribed bipolar medication and is used for ongoing treatment, though its full effects may not be experienced for weeks, and sometimes, months. Lithium is also the oldest drug used to treat bipolar disorder. It may take four to ten days to achieve a therapeutic level within the bloodstream, and is not as effective on ‘rapid-cyclers’, or those who experience frequent and chronic episodes of depression coupled with mania. For ‘rapid-cyclers’, a bipolar medication known as Valproate is often prescribed.
In some cases, antipsychotic drugs such as Clozaril have been used as a preventative treatment in some bipolar patients, though it tends to cause a rapid heart rate, hypotension, weight gain and constipation. Risperdal is also a common antipsychotic medication that has been successful when used in low doses, and since 2004, it has become the drug of choice in a vast number of bipolar patients. Side effects associated with Risperdal are mild compared to the side effects of other bipolar medication choices used in the past.
Another antipsychotic drug known as Zyprexa, used in combination with lithium or valproate for severe manic episodes, may cause low blood pressure and dizziness. Another very common antipsychotic known as Seroquel has a long-term mood stabilizing affect, while its side effects may include dizziness and elevated blood sugar levels.
Most bipolar medication antidepressants may cause manic episodes in those suffering from bipolar disorder, so they are used only on a short-term basis. More often, the class of drugs known as Selective Serotonin reuptake Inhibitors, more commonly known as SSRI’s, are prescribed, and include such drugs as the aforementioned Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil anti-anxiety drugs.
The most important aspect of treating bipolar disorder is to first recognize the symptoms of the disease and seek treatment. A doctor will decide which medication is right for each individual. However, it’s good to know that bipolar medication is available which may aid thousands of people diagnosed with bipolar disorder to live relatively happy, normal lives.
Riley Hendersen
http://www.articlesbase.com/non-fiction-articles/are-there-bipolar-medication-treatment-options-136982.html
Can someone describe to me what soul mates and kindred souls or spirits are?
Is there a difference? Do you know when you have met them? Can you have more than one?
Soul mates are romantically inclined, that special person whose perfect for you, while kindred spirits are people who share similar views and thought processes as you. I would highly advise against having more than one soul mate because this could cause a lot of problems. However, there shouldn’t be a problem with having more then one kindred spirit, the problem is actually meeting them.
What is an archetype?
Please try to describe what an archetype is. I am very curious.
I know I am the Lover archetype, so also please help me understand what that means.
*One more thing: What are archetypal Shadows, and what are they for the Lover?
An archetype is the model of a person, personality or behavior
An archetypal shadow is the opposite of yourself, usually he has qualities you have that you don’t know you have
An archetypal lover is either the anima or animus
Anima is how a man’s dream woman is
Animus is how a woman’s dream man is
Are past lives responsible for homosexuality?
If you believe in having past lives,
Could it be that a gay man was a women in a past life, and that would explain their femine personality?
By same token, could a lesbian woman have been a man in her past life, giving her a masculine personality now?
Thanks for the laugh this morning.
No. I’m gay because I just am. I like women. It has nothing to do with your implausible theory.
English……………………….?
1. Why do many fairy tales and myths contain archetypal narrative patterns?
(1 point)
The stories were all written by the same author.
Patterns made the stories easier to remember and tell.
Early storytellers were controlled by powerful rulers.
Early storytellers had little imagination.
2. According to the myth of Prometheus, what was required for the origin of fire?
(1 point)
a long, dangerous quest
a transgression against the gods
a tragic accident
an act of supernatural strength
3. Based on the story of Prometheus, which personal quality was admired in the cultural context of ancient Greece?
(1 point)
intelligence
dishonesty
caution
humor
4. What does the myth of Pandora explain?
(1 point)
the origin of beauty
the origin of evil
the origin of gifts
the origin of marriage
5. What is one aspect of ancient Greek culture that is important in the myth of the Great Flood?
(1 point)
an oracle, or message from a Greek goddess
an athletic competition called the Olympic Games
the grape leaves and goat cheese of the ancient Greek diet
the democratic government of the ancient Greek city states
6. What aspect of human life does the myth of the Great Flood explain in “Prometheus and the First People”?
(1 point)
why floods occur
why rainbows occur
why people are not evil anymore
why people are able to bear suffering
Please help.
. Why do many fairy tales and myths contain archetypal narrative patterns?
Patterns made the stories easier to remember and tell.
2. According to the myth of Prometheus, what was required for the origin of fire?
a transgression against the gods
3. Based on the story of Prometheus, which personal quality was admired in the cultural context of ancient Greece?
intelligence
4. What does the myth of Pandora explain?
the origin of evil
5. What is one aspect of ancient Greek culture that is important in the myth of the Great Flood?
an oracle, or message from a Greek goddess
6. What aspect of human life does the myth of the Great Flood explain in “Prometheus and the First People”?
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why people are able to bear suffering
Please help.
Do you like the idea of Soul Mates in YA books?
I’ve always found myself getting very annoyed with YA books about soul mates. I usually cant help but think that 16 and 17 are ridiculously young to be finding your soul mate. Am I just not romantic enough, or do other people feel this way too?
In books, not so much. It seems like an easy out for the author. Oh, they love each other instantly, they were meant to be. That way I don’t have to develop them, the relationship, or any background to make their magical love even the slightest bit interesting.
But I’m not so sure I believe in it in real life either. I’m a positive person, but when people say that they found "the one" and then get divorced 2 years later, it is hard to believe in it.
What improvements specifically would you suggest for this small bit of blank verse?
Fanúshi Khiyál
On ancient avenues the pilgrims come,
The box perched on their shoulders; it is lit
By candlelight that pierces through the dark.
And there, upon the fragile round they move ―
The painted shadow figures one by one,
In orbit and illumined by the flame,
Yet with no name, transmuting, will become
On each turn of the slow-revolving wheel
Transformed, as if the one where they now went
Had disappeared instead, and they’d become
This other pilgrim on an endless trail
That disappears around the farthest limb.
And where the light itself seems dim and dies
Arise the archetypes we’ve seen before,
Some low and forked, and others proud as kings,
Each slightly altered yet much as before,
All caught up in the endless sad parade
And pageantry within their tiny frame
Until the candle at the very heart,
Which lights the long procession, melts away
And all the darkness of the outer world
Becomes as one with what is in the box,
An empty socket where the warmth still clings
Until this sacred thing of light and dark
And purpose to the world is borne anew.
We are no other than a moving row
Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go
Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held
In Midnight by the Master of the Show.
a quatrain from ‘The Rubaiyat’ (Fitzgerald)
A total re-write, it’s awful. (JOKE).
Haha Peter, you know as well as I do that I would never be in any position to offer improvements upon a poem from the very person I learn my ‘poetic skills’ if you will, from. (I even pasted it into the comment box then deleted it back out again hoping the Yahoo spell checker would give me something to correct LOL).
The only thing I wasn’t too sure about was the use of the past participle ‘borne’, but that’s just me and hey, what do I know about poetry eh? 
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Made for a great read Peter – as usual, keep writing!
Has anyone ever had "Past Life Regression Therapy" ?
A hypnotherapy geared towards past life regression. If so, what were your outcome?
I’ve seen a DVD of a hypnotist doing one and I notice the words
as the person is regressed back until birth AND then.
The Hypnotist suggests (While the client is in trance mind you)
"Go back further" as a suggestion, suggesting she can.
The client follows what has been suggested
in a very ordinary manner recalls two previous ideas, no doubt her imagination
has been primed at this stage, a proceeds to create story’s.
So is she really going back in time ? Or just following suggestions
Wanting to go back, ( also no doubt expecting to as well ) or recalling a past life/s ?
I’ve formed my views as not being possible.
Best Wishes.
Mars Mission.
14th Year Psychology / Counselling Student.
4th Hypnotism Student.
32 Years Qualified Automotive Technician.
