The cognitive decline perhaps one of the consequences of the bipolarity, how can we learn to fix it?
Are you looking for words more often? You suffer from Memory lapses ?
Are you having trouble concentrating on reading?
Does carrying out tasks that were once simple suddenly seem to have become complicated or even impossible?
You expected the bipolarity Affect only your mood, since she is one turbid, and now reasoning is also a problem.
What is going on inside you?
This is due to the constitutive link that exists between a mood and a performance.
As the neurology professor explained, Antonio Damasio, our emotions do not arise without a cognitive background, made up of the thoughts and beliefs that make us react when a situation particularly moves us.
That's the reason why I'm not going Change your mood if something that I think is unimportant happens, but I will get into a state of shock if what made sense to me is questioned or collapses as a result of an event.
You need to know what happens when the bipolarity disease Causes a cognitive decline.
What does that mean?
This means that the functions you would usually use without even realizing it, familiar functions like talking or organizing your day, are altered or even greatly reduced.
You may even have the impression that your mastermind is like being stuck in a fog, that it is idling and you don't recognize yourself.
This is not a matter of mind, the degradation What you are observing is an effect of the sickness.
We all use major cognitive functions unconsciously, and we generally don't care about them, except when they fail us.
This is what happens when you have bipolar disorder : ceasing to be supported by them, we notice how necessary they were to lead a successful life.
We are thus led to consider them in the negative, so to speak, because they are conspicuous by their absence.
What could be more normal anyway?
We are used to their operational silence, a bit like in the case of digestion Or of scarring, functions whose functions are not constantly monitored physiological processes.
A lot of things happen in us that we don't stop at.
La bipolarity puts the spotlight on this type of capabilities, relating here to the field cognitive, which normally do not require a particular conscious effort and above all are not supposed to let go of us.
“I am afraid of losing my mind! ”
With bipolarity, you may realize that you are no longer able to reason, process information, acquire knowledge and use it practically as before.
We suffer from cognitive disorders.
Already that the mood disorder is difficult to live with, as if that were not enough, we are now mentally impaired or unable to perform a task that is usually very simple.
So when this happens, when we feel that we suddenly can't count on our language skills, our memory or other functions so familiar that we didn't even notice their presence, we are stunned, even shocked.
Especially if we have not been warned that studies establish a link between bipolarity and cognitive alterations.
Something to panic sometimes, not because of a lack of courage but because of the realization that we may no longer be as well equipped mentally That before, it makes you aware of his vulnerability in the face of adversity.
This can legitimately result in a fear of not being able to meet the most ordinary challenges of life from now on.
The fear generated by recurrent cognitive failures, the feeling of being overwhelmed by what is happening to us are all mental postures that are useful in our psychological organization : they encourage an appropriate reaction, one that invites you to take care of yourself so as not to suffer this situation any longer.
Because it is possible to remedy the problem.
“The reduction in cognitive abilities can be remedied.”
At HopeStage, we support bipolar people in a comprehensive and personalized way.
The cognitive decline is unfortunately one of the consequences of bipolarity observed by some studies in 43% of patients and varying according to a number of factors.
You lose your powers of attention or concentration, your verbal memory, etc.
It all depends on the age of the turbid and the degree of severity of symptoms.
The latter evolve and have an intensity related to the way in which the bipolar disorder Affecting you, for how long and according to the frequency of manic but also depressive episodes that you have gone through.
Sometimes just unpleasant to live with, this degradation can become disabling and require care. Charge with psychotherapy.
Why?
Because the repetition of the violent surges that constitute thymic episodes alters the brain more deeply each time, which can cause lesions in certain areas.
Fortunately, there are practices developed to help you stop the deleterious effects of bipolarity on your cognitions.
Ask your psychologist or one therapist to make you benefit from these tools at his disposal for this purpose.
What are they?
Should you take more medication?
Here, the work instead involves the competence of a psychiatrist.
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It is generally a question of engaging yourself, with your support, in varied exercises, sometimes fun or interactive, and that should not be very unpleasant to perform but which will require you to be active, to make an effort, for example, to pay attention or concentration.
This is because their purpose is precisely to stimulate, like an atrophied muscle that should be strengthened, the functions that in you have begun to decline.
This decline takes a form that is unique to you, which is why the practices in question are tailor-made, according to you, your life, your environment etc.
So you're going to start with the psychologist or the therapist. By drawing up an inventory of your cognitive abilities and the difficulties you encounter; from this you will be offered a whole therapeutic device to mitigate the ongoing degradation.
Good work on you and if you want to follow the full support of HopeStage, It's happening here!
