{"id":478,"date":"2008-12-07T20:12:42","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T20:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/2008\/12\/07\/mental-health-true-or-false\/"},"modified":"2018-05-15T10:01:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T17:01:31","slug":"mental-health-true-or-false","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/mental-health-true-or-false\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health True or False"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/o><\/span>Here are some mental health statements. Are they true or false? The answers are below. <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/o><\/span>#1. OCD is an anxiety disorder. <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/o>#2. People with bipolar disorder have psychosis. <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/o><\/span>#3. Bipolar disorder in children is the same as bipolar disorder in adults. <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/o><\/span>#4. Lithium is the only true mood stabilizer.\u00a0<\/o><\/span><\/o>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span>Answers: <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/o>#1\u00a0 True! There are seven types of anxiety disorders, general anxiety disorder, social phobias, specific phobias, agoraphobia, PTSD and OCD<\/span><\/p>\n

#<\/o><\/span>2. Absolutely true.\u00a0 <\/span>When my partner Ivan was in the hospital for three months- he was manic and very psychotic. This is normal with a full blown bipolar I manic episode. The psychosis is treated with antipsychotics such as Abilify, Seroquel, Risperdal and Zyprexa.\u00a0 <\/span>I write about Ivan in my book Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder. <\/span><\/p>\n

#3. False! The childhood bipolar disorder diagnosis is very controversial. In fact, in the last ten years the childhood bipolar disorder diagnosis has increased by 40%!\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Adult onset bipolar tends to start in the teenage years and is a very specific diagnosis. There has not been a significant increase in adult diagnoses. <\/span><\/p>\n

#<\/o><\/span>4. True! All of the other \u2018mood stabilizers\u2019- Lamictal, Tegretol, and Depakote are actually anticonvulsants. <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/o>You are now ready to test your family and friends! <\/o><\/span><\/o>\u00a0<\/span>Julie <\/o><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are some mental health statements. Are they true or false? The answers are below. <\/p>\n

#1. OCD is an anxiety disorder. <\/p>\n

#2. People with bipolar disorder have psychosis. <\/p>\n

#3. Bipolar disorder in children is the same as bipolar disorder in adults. <\/p>\n

#4. Lithium is the only true mood stabilizer. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Answers: <\/p>\n

#1 True! There are seven types of anxiety disorders, general anxiety disorder, social phobias, specific phobias, agoraphobia, PTSD and OCD<\/p>\n

#2. Absolutely true. When my partner Ivan was in the hospital for three months- he was manic and very psychotic. This is normal with a full blown bipolar I manic episode. The psychosis is treated with antipsychotics such as Abilify, Seroquel, Risperdal and Zyprexa. I write about Ivan in my book Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder. <\/p>\n

#3. False! The childhood bipolar disorder diagnosis is very controversial. In fact, in the last ten years the childhood bipolar [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12120,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/12120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}