What is bipolar disorder and how to treat it?

Mental disorder is a kind of disease that has a great influence on modern people's life and work. It has many different symptoms, such as bipolar disorder, which often appears in clinic. This kind of mental disorder is easy to cause patients' mood to suddenly rise or fall, which is difficult to control. Then, the clinical feature of bipolar disorder is that mania and depression attack alternately, and there is a trend of remission and recurrence. One of them can be highlighted in remission, and mental activity is normal. So how should we treat bipolar disorder? Can this disease be cured? (1) Make a clear diagnosis, eliminate secondary obstacles, grasp the changes of the disease in time, and adjust the treatment plan. Long-term maintenance treatment is necessary, with the goal of comprehensive and sustained symptom relief. (2) according to the needs of the disease, timely combined medication. No drug can completely and effectively control/prevent all the symptoms of BPD, and most patients need combined medication. There are two ways to combine medication: emotional stabilizer plus antipsychotics and emotional stabilizer plus antidepressants. It is necessary to understand the drug interaction caused by the induction or inhibition of metabolic enzymes when combined with drugs. Refractory and serious diseases, strong suicidal thoughts and behaviors can give priority to ECT. (3) Regularly monitor the blood drug concentration, and evaluate the efficacy and adverse reactions. Because the therapeutic index of lithium salt is low and the therapeutic dose is close to the toxic dose, the blood lithium concentration should be monitored dynamically. Some drugs specially used to treat mania should also reach the level of antiepileptic blood concentration. According to the determination of blood concentration, the blood collection time should be 12 hours after the last medication (for example, the next morning). (4) Strengthen psychotherapy and reduce psychological stress factors. (5) Besides acute control of symptoms and prevention of recurrence, efforts should also be made to restore social function and improve the quality of life. Click for free consultation and communicate with doctors online! After reading the introduction of the above experts, I believe everyone has a certain understanding of the possibility of curing bipolar disorder. Patients with this kind of mental disorder have obvious mental reaction, such as sudden high mood or sudden abnormal low mood, which is difficult to react and poses a great threat to people's health, so it is necessary to find suitable methods for treatment.