View online bipolar disorder videos on causes, types, diagnosis, treatment, bipolar children and living with manic depression.

Here are a few of the HealthyPlace.com videos on Bipolar Disorder. You can click on the "title" link to watch any video. You should have both the windows media player and realone player downloaded onto your computer as some files are in the windows format and others in the real format.

Videos

General - Causes, Diagnosis and Treatment

1. Overview of Bipolar Disorder - In-depth explanation of causes, types of bipolar, diagnosis and various treatments.
2. Bipolar Depression: Course of Illness and Outcome - Doctor's presentation on the challenge of diagnosing and treating bipolar depression. Includes who's susceptible to the disease, using antidepressants for treatment and suicidality.
3. Rapid-Cycling and Mixed States in Adolescents and the Elderly: A Parallelism - Doctor talks about how the clinical pictures of the various phases of Bipolar Disorder appear to change along with the aging process. (2003)

Bipolar Children and Adolescents

1. Misdiagnosing Bipolar Kids - news report profiling one child's ordeal and the difficulty of obtaining a proper diagnosis.
2. Increasing Number of Kids Being Diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder - news report on growing number of diagnosed bipolar children and the difficulty family members have dealing with them. And debate over whether kids should receive antipsychotic medications.
3. Behavior and Mood Problems in Children of Bipolar Parents - From the Fifth International Conference on Bipolar Disorder. Due to the increased public awareness about the existence of bipolar (BP) disorder in youth, parents with either personal or family history of BP are often referring their children for evaluation wondering if their children's behavior and emotional problems are due to BP disorder. (2003)
4. Pharmacological Treatments of Children and Adolescents

From the Fourth International Conference on Bipolar (2001)

1. Course and Outcome of Bipolar Disorder in Adolescents
2. Pharmacological Treatments of Children and Adolescents
3. What Are the Risk Factors for an Early Development of Bipolar Disorder in Children?
4. Panel Discussion on Child/Adolescent Bipolar
5. Treatment of Bipolar Disorder Patients in the Young and Middle Adult Years
6. Perceptions and Impact of Bipolar Disorder: How Far Have We Really Come?
7. Cognitive Therapy for Bipolar Affective Disorder

Women and Bipolar

1. Course of Bipolar Disorder in Pregnancy - There is wide agreement that the postpartum period presents unusually high risk for recurrence for bipolar disorder. Doctor discusses those risks and use of mood stabilizers. (2003)

People Speak Out

1. Jane Pauley - the talk show host on her struggle with bipolar disorder, her life now and her new book on her personal experience.
2. Ray Guevara on Stigma - Ray Guevara grew up in a conservative family and experienced cultural barriers to seeking treatment for his bipolar disorder. Now, with his illness and substance addictions under control, his experiences help him as an outreach worker for the homeless mentally ill in Stanislaus County, California. In this clip, Guevara discusses why stigma, shame and discrimination prevent an estimated 80 percent of mentally ill individuals from seeking treatment.

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