What’s the difference between bipolar and post traumatic stress disorder?
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 at
10:34 pm
If you read my questions I post, you can tell that it’s post traumatic stress disorder. Don’t tell me you diagosis, but what the difference is, please.
I go through mad abuse.
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Bipolar disorder is a bio-chemically caused mental disorder that often results in episodes of mania and dpression in varied degrees of length and intensity…altho it hasn’t been proven it tends to run in families therefore there may be a genetic connection…
Post-traumatic stress disorder is the result of an event or situation that the sufferer has experienced, lived thru…etc.
It is not genetic in nature….it is in response to an emotionally traumatic experience…..
racing thoughts…..insomnia….reduced inhibitions….rapid speech…thoughts that everthing is interconnected such as seeing obscure ‘patterns’ when patterns to things and situations are not there…promiscuity…..outrageous spending sprees…..these are some of the symptoms of mania….it can progress into halucinations and paranoia if not treated……
bipolar is an illness of acute mood swings. High and low which medication can help you with. My daughter in law has it and when she is low she has black outs and becomes very violent and tries to destroy the house.
Post traumatic stess disorder is when something really bad happens too you and it keeps coming back to haunt you.
good luck
bipolar is when you go through episodes of manic depression and manic normal/excitement. You have extreme highs and lows. Take for instance Robin Williams… he is bipolar and does his greatest work when he is in a manic period (obviouly the high manic period and not the depressive manic).
Bipolar is depression that causes you to have extreme high and extreme low times in your life. PTSD is when someone is suffering from something traumatic that happened to them or that they saw happening to someone else. It can be anything from a loved one passing away to abuse or anything in between. No one knows what people can and can’t handle. The two (bipolar and PTSD) are not related at all.
Bipolar disorder is medical condition that results from the imbalance of chemicals in the brain. The imbalance causes the cycling of emotions and behaviors based on these changes. Medication along with therapy is the treatment. PTSD is the condition of having a stressful event happen (PTS) and then becoming stuck, mired in that experience. Behaviors develop around trying to deal with the trauma that can often become problem some in that they avoid dealing directly with the emotional response to the trauma. Cognitive and behavioral approaches to therapy such as Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) are most effective (up to 80%) because this therapy allows the brain to accept the trauma, experience it without avoidance and retrain the brain that the trauma was past, not eminent.