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 […]
Author: Angela R. Kellum
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, […]