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Four Ways To Manage the Side Effects of Bipolar Medications and Drugs

When starting a new regimen of medication, it can be difficult to tell the extent of the side effects that you will experience. When starting out on a new psychiatric drug, the side effects will start out as severe and decrease with time. Keep in mind that medications can take days or [...]

Bipolar Psychopharmacology – Why Different Psychotropic Medications Have Varying Effects of Different Manic Depressives

Just 60 years ago, there was hardly a way to treat mental disorders, with most severely ill persons detained in asylums, and the moderately ill trying to carry on normal lives. Lithium carbonate changed the face of bipolar treatment, offering a long-term medical treatment option that allowed many bipolar to live a normal life. [...]