re to be going through rapid cycling. Often times, patients need combinations of drugs, which take a while to deciper, so it often takes about a month to find the correct prescription for somone. Mood stabilizers are mainly used for episodes of mania or hypomanis and sometimes for mixed episodes. Currently scientists and psychotherapists are trying to determine how bipolar disorder is caused. Studies have determined that bipolar can run in familes, so the disiorder is genetic. Unfortunately, though doctors have not yet found any other causes. Psychotherapists often do psychoanalysis of bipolar patients to find if anthing that occurred earlier in their les led to the disorder....
