BIPOLAR and A.D.H.D.?? Can a person be correctly diagnosed with BOTH??
Question: Seems like one is so much like the other, that symptoms overlap so much it would be incorrect to give a diagnosis for both in the same patient.
Am I correct in laymans terms with my observations on this?
Answers: Yes but if you correctly know of or have seen people with these conditions - it can be easily to tell the difference.
Bipolar can have major mood swings - great way to think of this is a women PMSing and/or a pregnant woman. Emotions run high and strong and some periods with no explainations why sometimes. With this the patient doesn't want to listen and can feel the world is against them. Attention span can be defensive at time and overbearing.
ADHD you usualy know why of the hyper rushes and can be controllable (meaning they listen) the patient can feel you are not understanding them and get easily frustrated. ADHD their attention span is very limited and sometimes unresponsive.
I great book for anyone who knows someone with bipolar is: 'Loving someone with bipolar' this book not only helps the person who loves the bipolar person but works with the bipolar person themselves and teaches you differnet approaches. The bipolar workbook is also another great book to own.
ADHD patients need patience and lots of it. Unlike the bipolar person which usualy need reassurance.
Bipolar can be a learned behavior for some the same apply for ADHD especially for children who do not have ADHD but plays with children which have ADHD.
The two conditions can be co-morbid. ADHD and bipolar disorder, however, are quite dissimilar as far as symptomology.
The only point at which the symptoms MIGHT overlap would be at the very beginning of a manic phase, where a person may be excessively talkative and/or have difficulty focusing.
A full blown manic episode, however, differs SIGNIFICANTLY from typical ADHD symptoms. We're talking about the difference here between fidgeting and jumping out a 3rd story window because you believe you can fly.
Bipolar and ADHD do share a lot of the same symptoms, but it is also possible that they both can occur. It just takes a very good psychiatrist to figure out what's going on.
They are no way a like. Even the A.D.H.D. is often wrong itself. There are two conditions -
1. the Attention Deficit Disorder is a learning disabillity that makes it difficult to keep ones mind on one subject (often wandering off), also are bad spellers and (grr I can't get the 3rd, very important part of it to come to me right now. When it comes to me I'll send it to you.). It is caused by a illness harsh enough to cause that brain damage or injury while in the mother.
The Hyperactivity is totaly separate. It means the child is overly full of energy. They may have a bad temper. And it can be difficult for some to slow down. A person that is Hyperactive only has to be totally willing/wanting to stop being Hyperactive and they can do it. That was all it took me.
(Forinstance, I caught Meningitis when I was nine moths old. and it caused the A.D.D.. At eight years old I caught the Measels, German Measels, and Pneumonia at the same time and that caused me to become Hyperactive.)
2. the Bipolar condistion is a physically inherded one that stopped the brain from being able to absorb the nutrition it needs, causing the people with Bipolar to often seem like they are insane. But they are not. It takes at least six months for a psychologist or psychiatrist to be able to tell if one is Bipolar or has a real pyschological problem (like the Boaderline Personalty Disorder). (On the Discovery Health Channal I saw a report, a few years ago, that said a cure/medication had been found for Bipolar by two men that did not work for a drug company; so the drug companies paid our congress off to make it illegal in the United States and Canada. So those with Bipolar are not getting a medication that works, just a drug that gets a lot of money to drug companies.)
My ex-husband is a Boarderline Personalty Disorder person.
The spell check is not working here. If any words are mis-spelled, I'm sorry.
Am I correct in laymans terms with my observations on this?
Answers: Yes but if you correctly know of or have seen people with these conditions - it can be easily to tell the difference.
Bipolar can have major mood swings - great way to think of this is a women PMSing and/or a pregnant woman. Emotions run high and strong and some periods with no explainations why sometimes. With this the patient doesn't want to listen and can feel the world is against them. Attention span can be defensive at time and overbearing.
ADHD you usualy know why of the hyper rushes and can be controllable (meaning they listen) the patient can feel you are not understanding them and get easily frustrated. ADHD their attention span is very limited and sometimes unresponsive.
I great book for anyone who knows someone with bipolar is: 'Loving someone with bipolar' this book not only helps the person who loves the bipolar person but works with the bipolar person themselves and teaches you differnet approaches. The bipolar workbook is also another great book to own.
ADHD patients need patience and lots of it. Unlike the bipolar person which usualy need reassurance.
Bipolar can be a learned behavior for some the same apply for ADHD especially for children who do not have ADHD but plays with children which have ADHD.
The two conditions can be co-morbid. ADHD and bipolar disorder, however, are quite dissimilar as far as symptomology.
The only point at which the symptoms MIGHT overlap would be at the very beginning of a manic phase, where a person may be excessively talkative and/or have difficulty focusing.
A full blown manic episode, however, differs SIGNIFICANTLY from typical ADHD symptoms. We're talking about the difference here between fidgeting and jumping out a 3rd story window because you believe you can fly.
Bipolar and ADHD do share a lot of the same symptoms, but it is also possible that they both can occur. It just takes a very good psychiatrist to figure out what's going on.
They are no way a like. Even the A.D.H.D. is often wrong itself. There are two conditions -
1. the Attention Deficit Disorder is a learning disabillity that makes it difficult to keep ones mind on one subject (often wandering off), also are bad spellers and (grr I can't get the 3rd, very important part of it to come to me right now. When it comes to me I'll send it to you.). It is caused by a illness harsh enough to cause that brain damage or injury while in the mother.
The Hyperactivity is totaly separate. It means the child is overly full of energy. They may have a bad temper. And it can be difficult for some to slow down. A person that is Hyperactive only has to be totally willing/wanting to stop being Hyperactive and they can do it. That was all it took me.
(Forinstance, I caught Meningitis when I was nine moths old. and it caused the A.D.D.. At eight years old I caught the Measels, German Measels, and Pneumonia at the same time and that caused me to become Hyperactive.)
2. the Bipolar condistion is a physically inherded one that stopped the brain from being able to absorb the nutrition it needs, causing the people with Bipolar to often seem like they are insane. But they are not. It takes at least six months for a psychologist or psychiatrist to be able to tell if one is Bipolar or has a real pyschological problem (like the Boaderline Personalty Disorder). (On the Discovery Health Channal I saw a report, a few years ago, that said a cure/medication had been found for Bipolar by two men that did not work for a drug company; so the drug companies paid our congress off to make it illegal in the United States and Canada. So those with Bipolar are not getting a medication that works, just a drug that gets a lot of money to drug companies.)
My ex-husband is a Boarderline Personalty Disorder person.
The spell check is not working here. If any words are mis-spelled, I'm sorry.
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