(Dboybaker/Flickr) The highs and lows of bipolar disorder are difficult enough – and then there's the chaos of finding ...

The short answer is yes — lifestyle changes that improve your gut health could in turn improve your mood, early research suggests. You may be familiar with the gut microbiome — the trillions of ...

Periods bring about different physical and emotional changes, which makes it a challenging time for most women. Navigating ...

Bipolar disorder appears to be more common in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) than in the general population. MS is an autoimmune condition that affects the brain and spinal cord, damaging nerves ...

Medications are often the first-line treatment approach for bipolar disorder. Drug interventions are most effective when combined with psychotherapy, such as cognitive behavioral therapy or ...

Doctors use different medicines to treat bipolar disorder. The drugs help control your symptoms, but they sometimes lead to extra pounds. They can lower your metabolism. If you didn’t have much of an ...

As a person who lives with bipolar disorder, I have faced a lot of stigma and discrimination, from extreme examples, such as being fired from my job, to small things, like a doctor assuming that I’m ...

About two-thirds of people with bipolar disorder are misdiagnosed with other mental health problems before bipolar is discovered (Hirschfeld, Lewis & Vornik, 2003). Among those individuals, a ...

Bipolar disorder wasn’t entirely new to Fast — now a bipolar disorder expert and researcher — when she was diagnosed. Her partner at the time was diagnosed with the condition in 1994, just one year ...

In addition to often being referred to by the same acronym (BPD), bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder share other superficial similarities that make it easy to confuse the two.

Nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta told the jury about meeting with Lindsay Clancy and her then-husband, Patrick Clancy, on Dec. 6, 2022 and determining Clancy didn't have bipolar disorder. Jollotta ...