How Bipolar Disorder Helps In Improving Human Potentials
Bipolar disorder encompass an entire range of human potential. Obviously, some people has accomplished historical landmarks in human achievement with bipolar disorder, while there are some problem occurs when others experience a slight difficulties in managing tasks in daily life. Many studies have illuminated various aspects of illness progression in bipolar disorder. Yet significant improvement to functional outcome may require further theoretical and clinical advancement.
In addition, many research or studies has been done in bipolar disorder through collected and analysed tens of thousands of data over the years regarding genetics, emotions, life experiences, medical histories, motivations, diets, temperaments, sleep patterns and thought patterns of research volunteers. In those findings, a useful framework has been developed to study the condition, clinical teams treating it, and patients experiencing it in hope that it will give them a structure during studies, treatment decisions and more.
Besides, the study has shown that all patient’s experience with bipolar disorder are different which include the seven classes of phenotypes which is the standard measures doctors use to diagnose in order to track the progress of bipolar disorder. The findings that shaped them to study the improvement of human potential is through the changes in cognition, personality or temperament, behaviours related to abuse and drugs, aspects of the person’s life that involve trauma, sleep patterns, and also to measure the patients’ symptoms that may change and the way they respond to treatment.
Nevertheless, in this comprehensive clinical assessment should not only focus on challenging the development of better diagnostic, but should also influence therapeutic strategies with targeted interventions designed to treat each of these inter-episodic dimensions and risk factors in order to obtain better long-term prognosis. To add, greater awareness of medical burden associated with bipolar disorder calls for an integrated medical care model. Increasing this awareness and recognition of the medical burden is also important as it has important public health impact as the direct cost of bipolar disorder not only involves health costs for the psychiatric component of the disorder, but also enormous medical care costs. In the US alone, the total health cost for persons with bipolar disorder is estimated to be between two to four times higher than costs for age and sex-matched general medical outpatients (Bryant-Comstock, Stender, & Devercelli, 2002).
Altogether, the findings and data shows and support the need to perform a fundamental re-examination of bipolar disorder leading to a more current view of the disease as a chronic, progressive, multi-system disorder. This framework may lead the search to identify the aspects of biomarkers and etiological factors also it might help to create a new approach for health care, including prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and training.
Next, the outcome of bipolar disorder also depends on systematic assessment. However, based on the treatment of bipolar disorder, it still mostly focuses on alleviation of acute symptoms and prevention of future recurrences. In addition, there are also some patients who are responding to a specific treatment but current guidelines advocate more or less similar treatment algorithms for all patients, ignoring the clinical, pathophysiological, and lifetime heterogeneity of bipolar. Even when diagnosis is established, it is still a major challenge because suboptimal treatments are limited and not offered in every country. Thus we need to develop personalized health care, as to reduce the risk of medical factors. “Health care factors such as lack of clinician training to address these questions, lack of comprehensive assessment, and lack of systematic follow up need to be rapidly changed in developed countries to diminish the burden and costs associated with bipolar disorder” (Leboyer & Kupfer, 2012)
Likewise, the medical health care to face these basic needs is of great importance that needs to be recognize and given the enormous consequences of bipolar disorder due to the suffering felt by the patients also because of public health cost. Undoubtedly, bipolar disorder is a major mental health issue because of the burden of the disease to the patients as well as it is under-recognized. This is why a new technology or ways to create a care system must be developed such as multidisciplinary assessment, a mental health program, and a regular monitoring risk factors.
Creating a multidisciplinary, structured, and thorough assessment of all aspects of bipolar disorder. Assessment should include not only dimensional assessments and cognitive evaluation to identify subtle impairments but also psychiatric comorbid disorders and medical risk factors. These evaluations should be performed by a multidisciplinary team specialized in the field of bipolar disorder and integrating physicians, psychiatrists, and psychologists.
Advocating a personalized mental health treatment program also helps in prescription according to the medical workup performed and including, for example, a selection of a mood-stabilizers based on risk-benefit assessment, a combination of primary prevention strategies such as psycho-education, increased physical activity, diet improvement, and secondary interventions with targeted treatments such as cognitive therapy, interpersonal social rhythm therapy (IPSRT), cognitive remediation, or stress alleviation techniques.
Doing a regular follow-up monitoring of risk factors also benefits in evaluating the impact of treatments to improve outcome, assessing risk factors, and monitoring the evolution of a chronic disorder along the life cycle.
On the other hand, there is no method to prevent bipolar disorder because the exact cause has not yet been determined. However, it is important to know its symptoms and seek early intervention. According to Newman (2017), even though there are no cure for bipolar in treatment, it still strive to lower the frequency of episodes in manic and depressive stage. Also, treatments can vary like putting patients under medication or psychotherapy. Not only that, certain exercise is extremely helpful in relieving the patients. Hence, early recognition of bipolar signs and seeing the doctor regularly can allow bipolar patient to monitor their mood and medications and keep this illness from escalating.
There are also effective strategies or ways to cope with bipolar disorder which can provide in improving human potential even though it can be challenging. One of it is to learn deeply about bipolar disorder where learning this knowledge and about one’s condition can empower as well as motivate themselves to their treatment plan and recognize mood changes. It also helps in delivering the message to their family and friends of what they have been going through. Besides, they should also stay focus on their goals. Learning to manage bipolar disorder is time consuming so they can keep their goals in mind and remind themselves that they can work to repair damaged relationships and other problems caused by their mood swings. At the same time, they should join a support group where they can meet people with the same condition so that they will feel connected to the others who face similar challenges in life and share their own experiences with each other. In addition, patient with bipolar disorder can find a healthy outlet in order to explore an extremely healthy lifestyle and to channel their energy by exercising, also by doing the things they love such as their hobbies or recreational activities. They can also learn ways to relax and manage stress by doing yoga, tai chi, massage, meditation or other relaxation techniques that can be useful.
