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| | Depression, Bipolar - Or PBA?
Sudden, uncontrollable crying, and sometimes laughing, characterize a little-known illness called PBA, pseudobulbar affect. A majority of patients with these and other symptoms are misdiagnosed with depression and, less often, bipolar disorder and other mental illnesses. Here is information on PBA and why it is confused with mental disorders.
| Schizoaffective Disorder
Difficult to define and difficult to diagnose, schizoaffective disorder combines elements of a mood disorder with those of schizophrenia.
| What is Schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, incoherence and physical agitation. It shares symptoms with bipolar disorder.
| Lupus & Bipolar Disorder: Is There a Relationship?
Problems caused in the nervous system by systemic lupus erythematosus (aka Lupus and SLE) include mood disorder and psychosis, which lead to the question of a link between lupus and bipolar disorder.
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