BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA

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1. Broward County, Florida says:

   Bipolar disorder is a serious mental illness in which common emotions become intensely and often unpredictably magnified. Individuals with bipolar disorder can quickly swing from extremes of happiness, energy and clarity to sadness, fatigue and confusion. These shifts can be so devastating that individuals may choose suicide.

   All people with bipolar disorder have manic episodes—abnormally elevated or irritable moods that last at least a week and impair functioning. But not all become depressed.

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2. Broward County, Florida says:

   Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, affects an estimated 2% of the population and can be one of the most difficult mental illnesses to endure. A severe manic state can cause people to spend money wildly, throw themselves into high-risk sexual encounters or lose their grip on reality. When depression takes over, they can feel exhausted, inert, even suicidal.

   Researchers are getting closer to identifying the genes that cause bipolar disorder. They’re using brain imaging to track the illness in a person’s neural pathways. And they’re zeroing in on triggers that might cause it to flare up.

   These developments, some experts say, suggest that children born today with a predisposition toward bipolar disorder will have easier lives than their parents had. The illness could be detected earlier, managed with more effective medications and perhaps even prevented altogether with therapy and lifestyle changes.

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3. Broward County, Florida says:

   Bipolar disorder affects more than 5 million Americans, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, and is the sixth leading cause of disability, according to the World Health Organization. The average age of diagnosis of bipolar disorder is 25 years, but there is an increasing awareness of the presence of symptoms in children.

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