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Bipolar disorder

How is it treated?

Treatment with medication is either preventative or symptomatic (treating episodes of mania and depression when they occur). Medication is usually with mood stabilising drugs such as Lithium which may also be taken in combination with other tranquilising or sedating drugs. Lithium can be taken as a long term preventative measure or a symptomatic medication.

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Medical text written May 2005 by Contact a Family. Approved May 2005 by Professor K Ebmeier, Professor of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK and Chair, Bipolar Guideline Group, Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network.

 

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