Treatment For Bipolar Disorder At BRC

Bipolar disorder is a mental health condition involving severe changes in mood, energy, and cognition. These symptoms can affect your relationships, work, health, and overall quality of life, including increasing your risk of suicide, diabetes, drug abuse, and other serious health problems.

Seeking treatment can make a big difference if you’re living with symptoms of bipolar disorder. The National Advisory Mental Health Council reports that bipolar disorder is highly treatable, with an 80 percent success rate for people who seek treatment.

Bedrock Recovery Center offers residential mental health treatment, which can help you stabilize during a crisis, getting your symptoms under control while keeping you calm and safe. It’s also a good option for people looking to transition from a stay in a psychiatric hospital but needing more care before returning home.

Our comprehensive services also include mental health evaluations and assessments, medication management, dual diagnosis treatment, individual psychotherapy, group therapy, peer recovery support, family psychoeducation, holistic treatment options, aftercare planning, and more.

Bedrock’s Residential Program For Bipolar Disorder

Your individualized mental health treatment plan at BRC will include treatment options that are proven to help people recover from bipolar disorder as well as holistic options for supporting your overall health and well-being.

Our medical and clinical professionals are trained in trauma-informed care to get to the root of your symptoms and provide lasting solutions for improved mental health. We can also provide dual diagnosis treatment for people with diagnosed or undiagnosed co-occurring disorders.

Medications

Medication is an effective way of reducing your bipolar disorder symptoms. Our psychiatrist, psychiatric nurses, and other care providers can help determine which medication and dosage is right for you, providing the desired outcomes with no, or few, side effects.

Mood stabilizers, for example, can make your mood episodes less severe, while antidepressants can relieve episodes of depression. Antidepressants may be prescribed alongside mood stabilizers to avoid manic side effects. Long-term treatment plans with medication may be more effective than short-term treatment.

Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy, also known as talk therapy, can also help you manage your mental health in the long term.

We provide evidence-based therapies such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), family psychoeducation therapy, couples therapy, and group therapy to help you address underlying trauma, unhelpful beliefs, difficult emotions, or other factors affecting your behavior while helping you learn how to build healthy relationships.

Holistic Activities At Bedrock

Our holistic approach at BRC includes plenty of options for wellness activities, including prosocial activities, recreation, and relaxation.

Wellness activities at Bedrock include:

• yoga classes
• meditation
• POUND and other group fitness classes
• basketball
• ping-pong
• movie nights
• game nights
• arts and crafts
• socializing and relaxing on our large outdoor patio

Engaging in these activities can help you discover new ways to cope with stress, connect with peers, and practice social skills.

Learn More About Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar disorder is characterized by two distinct mood episodes. Periods of intense activity, irritability, and energy are known as manic episodes, while periods of apathy, excessive sleeping, and low mood are known as depressive episodes.

How often and intensely you experience these episodes determines the type of bipolar disorder you have.

Types Of Bipolar Disorder

The different types of bipolar disorder are defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5).

These diagnoses include:

• bipolar I disorder: includes severe, long-lasting manic symptoms and severe depressive symptoms
• bipolar II disorder: includes hypomanic episodes, a less severe form of manic episodes
• cyclothymic disorder: includes hypomania and less severe depressive episodes

Other forms of bipolar disorder may exist that do not fall under these categories.

Diagnosis

An accurate bipolar disorder diagnosis can start with your primary healthcare provider, who can perform tests to rule out other causes of your symptoms and refer you to a psychiatrist or mental health treatment program.

Signs & Symptoms Of Bipolar Disorder

Symptoms of bipolar disorder may vary from person to person. Manic and depressive symptoms are the most recognizable signs, but there are many others.

Additional bipolar symptoms include:

• hallucinations, dissociation, and other symptoms of psychosis
• inflated sense of self
• sleeping problems
• sudden changes between episodes of mania and episodes of depression (rapid cycling)
• headaches
• high blood pressure
• rapid weight gain or weight loss

How long these symptoms last may also vary.

Risk Factors

Having a family history of bipolar disorder can be a major risk factor. Between 80 and 90 percent of people with bipolar disorder have a family member with bipolar disorder or major depression.
Other risk factors for bipolar disorder can include a history of substance abuse, insomnia, and high stress.

Statistics

About 3 percent of U.S. adults and adolescents have bipolar disorder, which accounts for about 7.5 million U.S. adults. Bipolar I disorder is slightly more common than bipolar II disorder.

One study reported over 50 percent of people with bipolar disorder will also experience a substance use disorder at some point in their life.

Mental Health Treatment At Bedrock Recovery Center

To find out if Bedrock Recovery Center’s bipolar disorder treatment options will work for you or your loved one, please contact us today.