Recovery

Bipolar Therapy Protects Against Recurrences

By Brigitte M. Gensthaler, Munich / People with a bipolar disorder sway between extreme high and low feelings. Without treatment, they repeatedly suffer through phases of mania and depression. Psychotropic drugs can significantly reduce this risk. At least two million people in Germany suffer from a bipolar disorder, also known as manic-depressive illness. The name […]

Depression

Restlessness: Causes and Overcoming

All people know phases in which they “can’t pull themselves together”. The planned bike tour does not turn out to be anything, because the way to the toilet is already difficult for us. Although we just got up, we have no drive and instead of jogging through the park, we just make it from the […]

General

Learning To Understand Bipolar Disorders

In the alternating bath of emotions – life on a roller coaster. Heavily cheering, saddened to death. The winged word borrowed from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s tragedy “Egmont” describes the psychological disorder known to us as bipolar affective disorder (BAS) more accurately than any other. Affected people live in extremes. Today they have unstoppable energy, […]